This is the mail archive of the
xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
mailing list .
Re: Matching elements with a name specified by an attribute value
- To: <xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com>
- Subject: Re: Matching elements with a name specified by an attribute value
- From: "Benoit Cerrina" <benoit dot cerrina at writeme dot com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 18:06:37 -0400 (EST)
- References: <ED9A78D9DEF6D111BE920008C724F99408D172FA@LON0901TNS>
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Hi,
Mike, how is this bad document design?
For one thing do you expect to have a say on the design of all the document
types you are writing stylesheets for.
For another I've got a similar case in a real world example where the id of
the instance is actually only unique among all instances of a type (think of
database tables with unique indices, each table is a type the id is
guaranteed to be unique within a table).
Benoit
> > Is it possible to match on elements where the names of the
> > elements to look
> You can do //*[name()=@data-element]
>
> But this is not a nice document design. Element tags are intended for
> identifying types, not instances. To identify instances, you should use an
> id attribute: <item id="item1">
>
> Mike Kay
>
>
XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list