Re: [xsl] I mean self::* doesn't select attributes :(

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman at CraneSoftwrights dot com>]

At 01/04/25 07:21 -0700, Joe English wrote:
>Evan Lenz wrote:
> >
> > Removing unneeded complexity from my previous examples, I now have the
> > following approaches to testing whether the attribute context node's 
> name is
> > a particular namespaced name:
> >
> > @*[local-name()='foo' namespace-uri()='&xyzURI;']
> > @*[generate-id()=generate-id(../@xyz:foo)]
> > @*[count(.|../@xyz:foo)=count(../@xyz:foo)]  (Thanks Ken)
>[...]
> > What I naturally tried was:
> > @*[self::xyz:foo]
> > But that doesn't work, [...]
>
>
>Wouldn't
>     attribute::xyz:foo
>or
>     @xyz:foo
>work?

Not if you are already sitting at an attribute node as the current node.

If you want to check the current node is an attribute node (say from within 
a predicate or within a template rule that matches many different types of 
nodes), then you need the machinations to get what you need.

In Evan's example he wanted a test to be done in the predicate when the 
current node is an attribute node.

............... Ken


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