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RE: Illegal attribute name
- From: Jarno dot Elovirta at nokia dot com
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 08:57:51 +0200
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Illegal attribute name
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Hi,
> I use the template .
> <xsl:template match="/test/T">
> <xsl:element name="{@fldname}">
> <xsl:apply-templates />
> <xsl:value-of select="@reserve2"/>
> </xsl:element>
> </xsl:template>
>
> It gives illegal attribute name when I am using a number as
> the 'fldname' value.
> If its an alphabet it works fine.what is the work around?
An element name must be a QName--see
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Creating-Elements-with-xsl:element>. If
you really want to generate looks-like-XML-but-isn't output, you could
generate the elements e.g. with name="x-{@fldname}" and then write your own
serializer to remove the "x-".
Cheers,
Santtu
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