Re: [xsl] xmlns="" ??

[Brian Chrisman <brian.chrisman@xxxxxx>]

David Carlisle wrote:

>  Side tracking a bit, is there any differences in the above two? If so, when
>  do we use the former?
>
>
> If you know the element name at the time the stylesheet is written than
> you can always do <foo> rather than xsl:element name="foo" the point of
> xsl:element is that you can generate element names on the fly eg
>
> <xsl:element name="h{count(ancestor::*)}">
>
> will generate an html h1 or h2 or... depending on how deep we are.
>
> Another use is to generate xslt
>
> <xsl:element name="xsl:value-of">
>
> generates an xsl:value-of in teh result werease <xsl:value-of wiill be
> executed as an instruction.
>
> There are some other minor differences related to namespace handling but
> they are rarely important.
>
> David
>
>
>  
Though it may sound pitiful, this is the only element I've encountered 
thus far where I think I'm forced to use the {} syntax in order to 
dynamically generate nodes (in most XSLt elements, I use the provided 
select="" attribute or content nodes).  That said, I can't really think 
of a better way to specify it myself without making the name attribute 
optional and creating some sort of additional element-name select="" node.
My solution was to overcome my fear of {}... :-)