Re: [xslt] overwriting attributes

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:14:52AM +0200, Janning Vygen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i found something weired in xsltproc/libxslt. I searched the bug 
> archive but didnt found anything.
> 
> I produced an html file from an xml file and it shows up with two 
> attributes of the same name in one element, which is an error, right? 
>  
> here is what i do: after parsing the sourcetree into chunks i want to 
> add some default attributes to my html tags. So before writing to 
> file i call an template with mode html.defaults.
> 
> I found a workaround for me with many choose statements but thats not 
> very nice.
> 
> here comes a part of the xsl code...
> 
> <xsl:template name="write.chunk">
>   <xsl:param name="filename" select="''"/>
>   <xsl:param name="method" select="'html'"/>
>   <xsl:param name="encoding" select="'ISO-8859-1'"/>
>   <xsl:param name="content" select="''"/>
> 
>   <saxon:output href="{$filename}"
>     method="{$method}"   encoding="{$encoding}"
>     indent="{$indent}" xmlns:exslt="http://exslt.org/common";>
>     <xsl:apply-templates mode="html.defaults"  
>      select="exslt:node-set($content)"/>
>   </saxon:output>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <!-- == doesnt work with xsltproc ====== -->
> <!-- default templates for copying the rest -->
> <!-- in html.defaults are left out to keep the example short -->
> 
> <xsl:template match="table" mode="html.defaults">
>   <xsl:copy use-attribute-sets="table.defaults">
>     <xsl:for-each select="@*">
>       <xsl:copy/>
>     </xsl:for-each>
>     <xsl:apply-templates mode="html.defaults"/>
>   </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> 
> normally the second attribute should owerwrite the first. At least 
> Michael Kay say so in XSLT Programmers Reference and for me it seems 
> to be convinient.

  Hum, could you isolate this into a full small but complete XSLT
and the associated XML example so I can reproduce it easilly ?

thanks

Daniel

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