<xsl:attribute> vs {}

berna_isct · April 6th, 2006, 03:14 PM

Hi, I use xslt to transform xml to html and I was wondering if there's any significant difference between using the <xsl:attribute> element like this:

Code:

<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of .../>
</xsl:attribute>
Click here
</a>

as oppossed to declaring a variable and using it like this:

Code:

<xsl:variable name="url" select=.../>
<a href={$url}>
Click here
</a>

Thanks a lot.

mhkay · April 6th, 2006, 03:30 PM

In Saxon

<a href="{$url}"/>

and

<xsl:element name="a">
  <xsl:attribute name="href">
    <xsl:value-of select="$url"/>
  </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>

compile to exactly the same code.

I can't speak for other products.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference