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RE: Novice question: selecting an element based on an attribute id
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 18:24:45 -0000
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Novice question: selecting an element based on an attribute id
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> I'm an novice user of XSLT but was tasked to transform an
> incoming XML file into another format. So far so good but I
> ran into a perplexing problem. Here's the short example of an
> incoming XML file:
>
> <object>
> <class name="TestF">
> <field name="_str1" type="java.lang.String"/>
> <field name="_str3" type="java.lang.String"/>
> </class>
> <String field="_str1" myId="28"><![CDATA[a test of
> referencing.]]></String>
> <String field="_str3" myIdRef="28"/>
> </object>
>
> This needs to be transformed simply to
>
> </object>
> <_str1><![CDATA[a test of string referencing.]]></_str1>
> <_str3><![CDATA[a test of string referencing.]]></_str3>
> </object>
>
> As you can see,
I may be blind, but I can't see. Could you explain more clearly the
relationship of your output to your input?
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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