Re: [xsl] stop the processing of default attributes?

[Dan Vint <dvint@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:03 PM 8/18/2011, you wrote:
> On 18/08/2011 23:22, dvint@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I think I know the answer to this question, but would like to see if I
> > mssied something.
> >
> > I;m using the following template in my conversion effort. This si teh
> > default handling for any element that I don't have something specific to
> > do on it:
> >
> > <xsl:template match="*">
> >         <xsl:element  name="{name()}">
> >                 <xsl:for-each select="@*">
> >                         <xsl:attribute 
> > name="{name(.)}"><xsl:value-of select="."/></xsl:attribute>
> >                 </xsl:for-each>
>   that for-each is a verbose way of writing <xsl:copy-of 
> select="@*"/> (apart from some namespace effects)


Interesting, I haven't seen copy of for anything other than elements. 
What sort of namespace affects are you alluding to? I am trying to 
get my output to replicate the input as best possible.




> >                 <xsl:apply-templates/>
> >         </xsl:element>
> > </xsl:template>
>
>
> > This works great except for places where the element has some default
> > value in the schema. So instead of getting<refdm>  as output, I get:
>
> you'd need to suppress the schema processing, or at least the 
> defaulting. using a basic rather than a schema-aware processor would 
> work, unless you need the schema aware behaviour elsewhere, or you 
> could use a catalog or entity resolver to switch in a schema that 
> didn't default, or your processor might have an option to suppress 
> defaulting (saxon does for example:
>  -expand:on|off        Expand defaults defined in schema/DTD
> )

Ok, that is confirmation of what I was expecting. I am using saxon, 
so I might give this a try. At the point I'm doing this processing 
I'm not trying to validate, just do a search and replace on some content.

thanks

..dan




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