Re: [xsl] Use of xsl:apply-templates exception with an element

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

>  but isn't strange that you 
> can use
> <xsl:copy-of select="*[@self::attribution]"/>
> but not

that is a syntax error. I'm not siure what you would intended it to mean
so I'm not sure of teh correct syntax, perhaps 
<xsl:copy-of select="*[self::attribution]"/>
although that is the same as
<xsl:copy-of select="attribution"/>

> <xsl:copy-of select="*[@self::{$name}]"/>

it woul dbe starnge of that worked, {} are never special synatex
chaarcters in xpath. Theie only use in xpath is, like any character to
be part of a string literal.

> Isn't this inconsistent from the language?
what inconsistency do you see?


perhaps you are looking for the xpath 2 attrubute test

select="attribute($name)"

David

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