RE: [xsl] Problems passing attributes

["Hewko, Doug" <Doug dot Hewko at ccra-adrc dot gc dot ca>]

Thanks.

Just wondering, why doesn't the following work? The period is not liked by
the parser. I expected the period to mean "self", or the "table" element. 

<xsl:template match="table">
	<xsl:value-of select=".[@border]"> 
</xsl:template>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@mulberrytech.com]
> Sent: September 28, 2001 2:15 PM
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Problems passing attributes 
> 
> 
> Doug,
> 
> Paul's solution is nice because if your input doesn't have a border 
> attribute to copy, it avoids getting border="" in your output 
> (which you 
> might get with plain border="{@border}" in your stylesheet).
> 
> It can be further refined as follows:
> 
> <xsl:template match="table">
>      <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
>          <xsl:copy-of select="@border"/>
>          <!-- do the table thing -->
>      </table>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> which can be further generalized to catch all three attributes:
> 
> <xsl:template match="table">
>      <table>
>          <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
>          <!-- do the table thing -->
>      </table>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> -- if you want to copy them all from the input, not set them yourself.
> 
> Cheers,
> Wendell
> 
> At 12:17 PM 9/28/01, Paul wrote:
> >If you *always* want to emit a border attribute, and you 
> *always* want it to
> >be a numeric value (not null), here's an easy way:
> >
> ><xsl:template match="table">
> >     <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
> >         <xsl:if test="@border != ''"><!-- if attribute exists and is
> >non-null -->
> >             <xsl:attribute name="border">
> >                 <xsl:value-of select="@border"/><!-- use 
> it's value -->
> >             </xsl:attribute>
> >         </xsl:if>
> >         <!-- do the table thing -->
> >     </table>
> ></xsl:template>
> >
> >The last attribute specified in the literal result element 
> takes precedence
> >if the same attribute name is used more than once.
> >
> >If you only want to emit a border attribute when a non-null 
> one is specified
> >on input, just leave the 'border="0"' out of the literal 
> result element
> >begin tag.
> >
> >If you don't care about emitting null border attributes, 
> this is the most
> >compact:
> >     <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="{@border}">
> >         <!-- do the table thing -->
> >     </table>
> 
> 
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