Re: [xsl] a bit of distraction ' quiz of XSLT 1.0 oddities'

[Kamal Bhatt <kbhatt@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, you look like your right. Sorry, I should pay closer attention to 
the standard.

Sylvain Hellegouarch wrote:

> Hi Kamal,
>
> I guess that's what the specification implies by:
>
> The following are all errors:
> * Adding an attribute to an element after children have been added to 
> it; implementations may either signal the error or ignore the attribute.
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#creating-attributes
>
> Although I might misunderstand.
>
> - Sylvain
>
> Kamal Bhatt a icrit :
>
> > Not too sure if this is an oddity of XSLT or of my parser (Xalan in 
> > cocoon) but I found that if the xsl:attribute value is not defined as 
> > the first thing, it is ignored completely. Eg
> >
> > ....
> > <img>
> >     <xsl:attribute name="src"><xsl:value-of 
> > select="some-value"/></xsl:attribute>
> >     <height>12</height>
> > </img>
> >
> > will work
> >
> > <img>
> >        <height>12</height>
> >       <xsl:attribute name="src"><xsl:value-of 
> > select="some-value"/></xsl:attribute>
> > </img>
> >
> > will not.
> >
> > This may seem obvious to some people, but it actually wasted a lot of 
> > time for us.