re: [xsl] creating attribute for xsl:element in applied template

["Vladimir Nesterovsky" <vladimir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You may want to move some templates into a different mode.
In fact all except
<xsl:template match="/xs:schema/xs:element[@name]">


Thus
<xsl:template match="/xs:schema/xs:attribute[@name]" >

won't be matched by
default.

--
Vladimir Nesterovsky
http://www.nesterovsky-bros.com/


>
What I try to do now is to generate a sample XML file with XSLT. Therefore 
>
I first create an xsl:element and then apply-templates on every 
>
child-node. When some sub-structure happens to contain a xs:attribute, I'd 
>
like to assign that attribute to the created xsl:element. This is not 
>
possible, because the creation of xsl:attribute takes place in another 
>
template than the creation of the xsl:element.
> 
> The XSLT I came up with
so far:
> 
> <xsl:template match="xs:element[@ref]" >
>
<xsl:apply-templates select="/xs:schema/xs:element[@name = 
>
current()/@ref]" />
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template
match="/xs:schema/xs:element[@name]" >
>         <xsl:element name="{@name}">
>                 <xsl:apply-templates />
>         </xsl:element>
>
</xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="xs:complexType" >
>
<xsl:apply-templates select="xs:attribute" />
>         <xsl:apply-templates
select="*[not(self::xs:attribute)]" />
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template
match="xs:attribute[@ref]" >
>         <xsl:apply-templates
select="/xs:schema/xs:attribute[@name = 
> current()/@ref]" />
>
</xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="/xs:schema/xs:attribute[@name]" >
>         <xsl:attribute name="{@name}">
>                 <xsl:value-of
select="@type" />
>         </xsl:attribute>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> Saxon
sais: "Cannot write an attribute node when no element start tag is 
> open"
> 
> Is there no other way to accomplish this task than to create all 
>
attribute-nodes directly in the "xs:element[@name]" - template? Would a 
>
switch to XSLT 2.0 change something?