Perhaps you meant to use an attribute value template (AVT)?
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:element name="{local-name()}" />
</xsl:template>
Attributes which are interpreted as AVTs are indicated as such in the
recommendation. See:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#dt-attribute-value-template
and the paragraph following the one you quoted:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Creating-Elements-with-xsl:element
"The name attribute is interpreted as an attribute value template. It is
an error if the string that results from instantiating the attribute
value template is not a QName."
Dave
"Phil Rice"
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Subject: Can the <xsl:element>
have a name attribute that is
02/20/2002 01:48 dynamic?
AM
I have tried the following:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; version
="1.0">
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:element name="local-name()" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I was expecting to get a single element with a name of the top element.
Unfortunately I got
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
file:///C:/WINDOWS/jbproject/XMLTransformation/calls.xsl; Line 4; Column
38; Illegal value used for attribute name: local-name()
When I replace the offending xsl:element line with <xsl:value-of select
="local-name()" /> I get:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
PHONE_RECORDS
As I understand the specification:
"The xsl:element instruction allows an element to be created with a
computed name. The expanded QName of the element to be created is specified
by a required name attribute and an optional namespace attribute."
I am probably being naive, but I would appreciate any help
Phil Rice
