Re: [xsl] Losing an attribute in transformation

["Tracey Zellmann" <tracey.zellmann@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you very much!!
That worked perfectly.

I am still struggling up the hill understanding how these mechanisms work - 
to say nothing of the issues of declarative languages.
I have Michael Kay's excellent book and have recently statred a new one from 
Jeni Tennison that I found. But without this forum, I couln't get through 
the details.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Carlisle" <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Losing an attribute in transformation


> > After my xsl stylesheet transforms this to html, the attribute has been
> > removed.
>
> Not so much removed, as not copied. The default behaviour (for elements
> and attributes) is not to copy them to the output. If you use a minimal
> stylesheet with no templates and run it on any xml file you get no
> error, and get no elements in the result.
>
> so if you want attributes in the result you need to copy them (or make
> them). So in this case after making the element
>
> <xsl:element name="{local-name()}"
> namespace="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>
> you want to copy all the attributes from the source element, so add
> <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
>
>
> David