Re: Matching elements with a name specified by an attribute value

["Benoit Cerrina" <benoit dot cerrina at writeme dot com>]

Hi,
Mike, how is this bad document design?
For one thing do you expect to have a say on the design of all the document
types you are writing stylesheets for.
For another I've got a similar case in a real world example where the id of
the instance is actually only unique among all instances of a type (think of
database tables with unique indices, each table is a type the id is
guaranteed to be unique within a table).

Benoit


> > Is it possible to match on elements where the names of the
> > elements to look
> You can do //*[name()=@data-element]
>
> But this is not a nice document design. Element tags are intended for
> identifying types, not instances. To identify instances, you should use an
> id attribute: <item id="item1">
>
> Mike Kay
>
>





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