RE: [xsl] "*|@*|text()" vs. "node()"

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

node() is short for child::node(), it doesn't match attributes, because they
aren't the child of anything.

Mike Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of
> Jorg Heinicke
> Sent: 04 October 2001 13:49
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] "*|@*|text()" vs. "node()"
>
>
> I want to shorten/improve my XSL-code, but a problem occures.
> Until now I
> had a stylesheet like the following:
>
> <xsl:template match="*|@*|text()">
>    <xsl:copy>
>      <xsl:apply-templates select="*|@*|text()"/>
>    </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="@href">
>    <xsl:attribute name="href">
>      <xsl:choose>
>        <!-- specifying the value -->
>      </xsl:choose>
>    </xsl:attribute>
> </xsl.template>
>
> <!-- some more templates -->
>
> Now I changed "*|@*|text()" to "node()" (both <xsl:template> and
> <xsl:apply-templates>) and I thought it should make no
> differences, because
> the original XML contains only elements, attributes and text-nodes.
> But now I get an error-message:
>
> href has an illegal attribute: {1}
>
> Is this a bug in Xalan, because the priority of the templates
> doesn't work
> correctly anymore? Or what can be the problem?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Joerg
>
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