RE: [Saxon] <xsl:choose> inside <xsl:attribute-set>

["Chris Bayes" <Chris at Bayes dot co dot uk>]

Do you have xml:space="preserve" in your xml? If you do you will get this
error.

Ciao Chris

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
>[mailto:owner-xsl-list@mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of David Allouche
>Sent: 17 August 2000 19:22
>To: XSL mailing-list
>Subject: [Saxon] <xsl:choose> inside <xsl:attribute-set>
>
>
>
>First, I would like to thank Nikolai Grigoriev and Sebastian Rahtz for
>their very helpful answers to my question about using CSS to emulate FO.
>I am now woking at outputting CSS enriched HTML as Sebastian suggested.
>
>I have a problem wich looks very much like a bug in Saxon.
>I am using Saxon 5.4.1.
>
>- - - toto.xsl - - -
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>		xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
>
>  <xsl:attribute-set name="foo">
>    <xsl:attribute name="bar">
>      <xsl:choose>
>	<xsl:when test="/toto">Toto</xsl:when>
>	<xsl:otherwise>Not Toto</xsl:otherwise>
>      </xsl:choose>
>    </xsl:attribute>
>  </xsl:attribute-set>
>
>  <xsl:template match="/">
>    <toto xsl:use-attribute-set="foo"/>
>  </xsl:template>
>
></xsl:stylesheet>
>- - - - - - - - - -
>
>$ java com.icl.saxon.StyleSheet toto.xml toto.xsl
>Failed to compile style sheet
>At xsl:choose on line 8 of file:/home/david/tmp/toto.xsl: Element must
>only be used within a template
>
>- - - XSLT Programmer's Reference (p. 164) - - -
>An attribute set in not simply a textual macro. The attributes contained
>in the attribute set each have a template body to define the value, and
>although this will often be a simple text node, it may also, for example,
>declare variables or invoke other XSLT instructions such as
><xsl:call-template> and <xsl:apply-templates>.
>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
>Is there actually a contradiction, or a I am misunderstanding something ?
>
>Actually, I can work around the problem by using named templates instead
>of attribute sets, but using attribute sets gives a useful clue to the
>human reader (I am working on an semi-automated conversion tool).
>
>Moreover this upsets me as a wrongness in my grokking of XSLT.
>
>                             -- David --
>
>PS: Kay's book is the One True Book (tm) on XSLT
>
>
>
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