Newbie XSLT question

radioactiveman

Hi
Can anyone help me with this XSLT problem?

In my XML I have a tag called class, and it has a name attribute. How do I get this name attribute

<class name="Ds0Bundle">
              ... stuff processed by XSLT in here 
 </class>

I am doing this in the xsl file:

<xsl:template match="class">
 			<class name="@name">	
 				<xsl:apply-templates />
 			</class> 			
 </xsl:template>

but it's giving me literally <class name="@name&quot;> in the output file. How do I get the actual value of name?

If anyone knows XSLT would be very grateful!
Thanks!


PS I can get it by doing

<class>
<xsl:value-of select="@name" />
</class>

but I need to have it in the format e.g. <class name="myClass">, there's a program that takes this as input and it would be much better to have it in that format.

onemorechance

It could be that 'name' is a reserved attribute in xsl or something like that. Maybe using a namespace would help.

Try workarounds like using a variable of referencing the attribute name.

<xsl:template match="class"> 
<class> 
<xsl:for-each select="*"> 
<xsl:variable name="LocalName" select="local-name()"/>
<xsl:attribute name="{$LocalName}"> 
<xsl:value-of select="."/> 
</xsl:attribute> 
</xsl:for-each> 
</class> 
</xsl:template> 

stevenmu

IIRC when you have it in quotation marks as part of a tag like that you need to use {} brackets.

So I think something like

<xsl:template match="class">
 			<class name="{@name}">	
 				<xsl:apply-templates />
 			</class> 			
 </xsl:template>

should do it.

radioactiveman

Thanks a million guys
Sorry for the late reply.

I actually got around it by copying the whole element. But it's not really the solution to the problem - this does it properly - appreciate it