Subject: RE: [xsl] Finding out if the current node is an attribute node From: "Conal Tuohy" <conalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 11:11:03 +1200 |
Does "self::*@" work? > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Adrian > Grigore > Sent: Monday, 2 June 2003 09:00 > To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [xsl] Finding out if the current node is an attribute node > > > Hi, > > I am currently working with xsl-metaprogramming (an xsl template is > compiling another language into xsl) and need to generate a > template that > behaves differently when it's current node is an attribute > node than when > it's current node is any other kind of node. > > In other words, I am looking for an easy way to check within the > template example if the template's match attribute is something like > > /somenode/@id > > in which case it matched an attribute node or something like > > /somenode/somechildnode > > in which case it matched a element node. It's easy to find > out about text > and comment nodes, but there seems to be no function for this > in order to > distinguish between element and attribute nodes. I could > write a an xsl > helper template that analyzes the matched string, but that > would take a few > hours. For example an xpath expression like this makes it > tricky to find > out if you matched an attribute or an element node: > > /addresses[@id='2']/someaddress/phone/@type[../@test='somevalue'] > > in this case the @type attribute node is the current node, so > it is an > attribute. But in this case > > /addresses[@id='2']/someaddress/phone/@type[../@test='somevalue']/.. > > it would be an element! So the easiest approach I have found > so far is to > look for the last @... string that is not surrounded by [] > brackets, but it > takes a lot of xslt code to find it.. > > So, is there any simple way to do this? Maybe I overlooked > something obvious? > > > There is certainly no other way for me to implement this, I > looked for > another way for many hours already. Any help would be greatly > appreciated! :-) > > Thanks in advance for your time, > > Adrian Grigore > > Adrian Grigore > > -- > Adrian Grigore > adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Lobstersoft - Fun Brain-Bending Games For All Ages > http://www.lobstersoft.com > Member of the Association of Shareware Professionals > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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