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RE: Identity transformation (without using xsl:copy)
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 19:32:42 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Identity transformation (without using xsl:copy)
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> A few weeks ago I posted a message (below) asking how to do
> an identity
> transformation (without using <xsl:copy>) on instance documents that
> contain namespace declarations. The resounding response was "no way".
> [Thanks for your input!] Okay, after much testing and reading I have
> convinced myself that you are correct - <xsl:copy> must be used. It
> seems to me that this puts some serious limits on XSLT. Consider this
> simple problem: write a stylesheet which does an identity
> transformation, but where all element (local) names are converted to
> upper case.
So long as the processor implements the errata to the XSLT 1.0 spec, you can
do
<xsl:element name="{ }">
<xsl:copy-of select="namespace::*"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
in place of xsl:copy: i.e. you can change the element name while still
copying the namespace nodes.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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