RE: [xsl] Detecting presence of attributes

["Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>]

> >Your xsl:for-each below always selects just one node ( an element has
> >not more than one attribute with a given name)
>
> No, the attribute is declared as ENTITIES, not ENTITY. There are
> multiple entity names in the attribute value, separated by spaces.

The attribute type is not visible in the XPath tree model and has no effect
on the way a stylesheet is processed (unless the type is ID, which affects
the id() function).

Splitting up an ENTITIES value is therefore the same as processing any other
space-separated string, it can be done using a recursive named template
using the substring-before() and substring-after() functions, or using the
tokenize() extension function present in Saxon and Xalan.

Mike Kay


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