Re: [xsl] How to select a namespaced attribute?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2002-12-27 14:13 -0500, Vic Gar wrote:
> <xsl:value-of select="//Services/@key"/>
> ...
> and Saxon 6.5.2 and msxsl come up with nothing.

Correctly

> If I substitute @src:key, then I get an error for an
> undeclared namespace.

Yes, because you haven't declared src in your stylesheet.

> How can I select the value of the src:key attribute
> correctly?

By adding the namespace declaration in your stylesheet.

An example is below (note that the prefix is immaterial).

I hope this helps.

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

T:\ftemp>type vic.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<bill>
  <Services  type="smtp" name="generic" 
xmlns:src="http://xml.apache.org/xindice
/Query" src:col="/db/data/jobs/smtp" src:key="2"/>
</bill>
T:\ftemp>type vic.xsl
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:vic="http://xml.apache.org/xindice/Query";
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:value-of select="//Services/@vic:key"/>

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\ftemp>saxon vic.xml vic.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>2
T:\ftemp>


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