RE: select attribute for xsl:attribute?

We have considered from time to time adding a select attribute to
xsl:element and xsl:attribute in XSLT 2.0, the intention being that this
would create an element or attribute with the same type as the supplied
expression, rather than simply converting the value to a string. The current
situation is that we don't support this - the only way you can create a
typed value is by writing the string value and validating it, which ensures
that the type is consistent with the value. But we may provide such a
capability eventually, and we would want to reserve "select" to have this
meaning, rather than using it merely as a syntactic shorthand for the
existing XSLT 1.0 semantics.

Thanks for the comment.

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clarke, Agnes [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 02 January 2003 12:16
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: select attribute for xsl:attribute?
> 
> 
> 
> Dear editors,
> 
> I find it (very slightly) frustrating that the xsl:attribute 
> element does not have a select attribute.
> 
> For example, I must type:
> 
>          <xsl:for-each select="$atts/*">
>             <xsl:attribute name="name()">
>                <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>             </xsl:attribute>
>          </xsl:for-each>
> 
> If $x = <att1>1</att1><att2>2</att2><att3>boo</att3>
> Then we get: <... att1="1" att2="2" att3="boo" ...>
> (This is a bit more dynamic then using xsl:attribute-set)
> 
> In an ideal world I could type:
> 
>          <xsl:for-each select="$atts/*">
>             <xsl:attribute name="name()" select="." />
>          </xsl:for-each>
> 
> The same applies to xsl:element...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Agnes Clarke
> www.agslin.net
> 
> 
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