Example 3 of <xsl:attribute>
This example shows the use of <xsl:attribute name="{name()}"/>
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XML File (attribute.xml)
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="attribute.xsl"?>
<root>
<bar>bar1</bar>
<bar>bar2</bar>
<bar>bar3</bar>
<bar>bar4</bar>
<bar>bar5</bar>
</root>
XSLT File (attribute.xsl)
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="//bar">
<xsl:element name="myElement">
<xsl:attribute name="{name()}">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output
There is no formatted output. This is the processor output:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<myElement bar="bar1" />
<myElement bar="bar2" />
...
<myElement bar="bar5" />