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Re: Creating a dynamic element name from one of its children elements

From: "Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@---------.------>
To: NULL
Date: 12/12/2007 8:23:00 AM


"brc" <brentc@a...> wrote in message 
news:f5d18c38-70dd-4248-8b03-471c5eaed482@i......
>I want to set the name of an element to the value of one of its child
> elements (the 'name' element) in a XSL stylesheet.  See below.
>
> <xsl:template match="ns:well">
>      <xsl:element name="{?????}">
>             <ns:name><xsl:value-of select="ns:name"/><ns:name>
>             <ns:wellType><xsl:value-of select="ns:wellType"/>
>              .
>              .
>              .
>      </xsl:element>
> </xsl:template>
>
> So what do I need to substitute for the ????? so that the elements
> name will be set to
> the name of the "name" element it includes?
Seems a strange request, but why can't you use the following?

<xsl:element name="{ns:name}">

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