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Attributes disinherited
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- Subject: Attributes disinherited
- From: lachance at chass dot utoronto dot ca (Francois Lachance)
- Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 12:27:43 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
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Very nice turn of phrase, Wendell.
It certainly helps explain to people how a machine doesn't consider an
attribute to be a child and yet how an attribute can have a parent
>
> Looking at 7.5 also illuminates a point we came across last week -- that
> attributes are disinherited, not being the children of their parents.
> Notice that the identity transform must specify
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>
> to get the attributes into the result tree. Otherwise, they would not be
> processed (the default is, only recognized child elements -- select="*" --
> get invited to the wedding).
>
> Just in case:
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath
>
> Enjoy,
> Wendell
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