Re: [xsl] Multiple attributes present and non-present

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike,

At 01:22 PM 3/4/2002, you wrote:
> I was looking for a way to copy all the attributes of any element in
> my xsl:stylesheet. I stumbled on to this (below).  I have not found
> an example of copy-of being used this way. Should I use a different
> method?

No, if you want to copy all attributes, this works fine.

> Also it would be nice not to have the empty attributes (taken from my
> dtd probably) appear. How can I null this consequence?

If you want to avoid attributes whose value is the null string, then do

<xsl:copy-of select="@*[string(.)]

which copies only those attributes whose string value tests as true (is 
non-null). If you want to eliminate also attributes that have only 
whitespace, do

<xsl:copy-of select="@*[normalize-space(.)]

Attributes which have a default in the DTD will still be copied. 
Unfortunately, the XSLT data model does not preserve information about 
whether an attribute value was provided by default.

Cheers,
Wendell



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