Re: [xsl] How to select only the attributes present in the source document

[Goetz Bock <bock@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 23 '01 at 11:21, Peter Stark wrote:
> How can I specify that <xsl:copy-of select="@*" /> should NOT select and
> copy default attributes (from the DTD) into the result document?
> 
> I want only the attributes that are present in the instance (source
> document).
Some one sould add this to the FAQ:

DTD processing is done by the XML parser, there is no way in XSL-T to
influence the parsing of the source document.

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If your XML parser is a validating one, it has to add all default 
attribute values to elements in the source document. There is no way for
XSL-T to determine wether a given attribute comes from the source or the
DTD.

The only thing you could do is to test wether the value of an attrbute
matches the default from the DTD (you can not parse the DTD, you've to
get it from the DTD and add it to your XSL-T manually) and filter it
out. (This is a lot of hand work/writing).

Cu,
    Goetz.

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