Subject: Re: Set Attribute or Element using XPath From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:22:17 -0700 (MST) |
Ayelet Kotzer wrote: > The question is - Can I set a value to an Element or an Attribute > using the XPath search mechanism ? No, XPath provides a way to reference nodes in a tree that is implied by an XML document, and it mandates functions that return objects of type boolean, number, string, or node-set. i.e., it is 'read-only'. Tree construction is handled by XSLT, which extends XPath by adding more functions, another object type, an XML vocabulary with additional semantics, and a processing model. People want to call this construction 'transformation', but I think that's really a misnomer, since you never actually modify anything. Instead, you create a new node tree (or node tree fragments) that *may* be based upon information that XPath expressions helped you obtain from the original tree(s). - Mike ____________________________________________________________________ Mike J. Brown, software engineer at My XML/XSL resources: webb.net in Denver, Colorado, USA http://skew.org/xml/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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