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RE: [xml-dev] JAXP's ID Transform failing to include namespace declarati

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To: "'Evan Lenz'" <elenz@xyzfind.com>,"'Elliotte Rusty Harold'" <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>,<xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] JAXP's ID Transform failing to include namespace declaration attributes
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 17:45:23 -0000
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In-reply-to: <BNEMICIEADHDDOIKLHNCKEGNFMAA.elenz@xyzfind.com>
Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@ntlworld.com>

> Actually, the real bug is that XSLT doesn't provide *any* way
> to create an
> ID attribute in the result, or even to test whether a given
> attribute in the
> source tree is an ID attribute. (If someone could prove me
> wrong on this
> latter point, I'd greatly appreciate it!)

You are correct.

Given <a id1="xyz" id2="xyz"/> I can determine (laboriously) that the
element has an ID attribute whose value is "xyz", but I cannot determine
which of id1 or id2 is the ID attribute.

Mike Kay

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- RE: [xml-dev] JAXP's ID Transform failing to include namespace declaration attributes
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