RE: [xsl] XML Elements to XML Attributes

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Using a for-each and testing position() seems clumsy, compared with explicit
indexing. 

What's wrong with

<entry tag="{td[1]}" attribute="{td[2]}" type="{td[3]}"
description="{td[4]}"/>

Not coming from a C/C++ world, I can't see why you would want to use
variables.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mathieu Malaterre [mailto:mathieu.malaterre@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 14 January 2007 01:32
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] XML Elements to XML Attributes
> 
> Hello,
> 
>   I have a very simple question. I have currently the 
> following xsl script (1). But instead of creating elements I 
> would like to create attributes, something like:
> 
>   <entry tag="{$1}" attribute="{$2}" type="{$3}" description="{$4}"/>
> 
>   Where $1-4 are the values coming from the loop at 
> position() respectively 1-4.
>   Coming from a C/C++ world I would have created variables, 
> unfortunately I cannot do that with the loop. I must be 
> missing something trivial to be able to rewrite it correctly in XSL.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> (1)
>         <entry>
>         <xsl:for-each select="td">
>           <xsl:variable name="cur_val">
>             <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>           </xsl:variable>
>           <xsl:choose>
>             <xsl:when test="position() = 1">
>               <tag d="{$cur_val}"/>
>             </xsl:when>
>             <xsl:when test="position() = 2">
>               <attribute d="{$cur_val}"/>
>             </xsl:when>
>             <xsl:when test="position() = 3">
>               <type d="{$cur_val}"/>
>             </xsl:when>
>             <xsl:when test="position() = 4">
>               <description d="{$cur_val}"/>
>             </xsl:when>
>             <xsl:otherwise>
>               <bug/>
>             </xsl:otherwise>
>           </xsl:choose>
>         </xsl:for-each>
>         </entry>
> 
> 
> --
> Mathieu