Re: [xsl] Problems passing attributes

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug,

Paul's solution is nice because if your input doesn't have a border 
attribute to copy, it avoids getting border="" in your output (which you 
might get with plain border="{@border}" in your stylesheet).

It can be further refined as follows:

<xsl:template match="table">
    <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
        <xsl:copy-of select="@border"/>
        <!-- do the table thing -->
    </table>
</xsl:template>

which can be further generalized to catch all three attributes:

<xsl:template match="table">
    <table>
        <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
        <!-- do the table thing -->
    </table>
</xsl:template>

-- if you want to copy them all from the input, not set them yourself.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 12:17 PM 9/28/01, Paul wrote:
> If you *always* want to emit a border attribute, and you *always* want it to
> be a numeric value (not null), here's an easy way:
>
> <xsl:template match="table">
>     <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
>         <xsl:if test="@border != ''"><!-- if attribute exists and is
> non-null -->
>             <xsl:attribute name="border">
>                 <xsl:value-of select="@border"/><!-- use it's value -->
>             </xsl:attribute>
>         </xsl:if>
>         <!-- do the table thing -->
>     </table>
> </xsl:template>
>
> The last attribute specified in the literal result element takes precedence
> if the same attribute name is used more than once.
>
> If you only want to emit a border attribute when a non-null one is specified
> on input, just leave the 'border="0"' out of the literal result element
> begin tag.
>
> If you don't care about emitting null border attributes, this is the most
> compact:
>     <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="{@border}">
>         <!-- do the table thing -->
>     </table>


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