Hi frnz,

I am stuck in accessing the value present in the element as below


<elephant:Title xmlns:elephant="elephant.1#">
An act to amend Sections 17024.5, 17052.6, 17072, 17077, 17085, 17131,
17132.5, 17140, 17140.3, 17144, 17152, 17220, 17250, 17250.5, 17255, 17256, 17279.4, 17501, 17551, 17731,

<?xm-insertion_mark_start author="conversion process" time="20050620T175447-0800"?>
17733, 18571, 18572, 18628, 18633, 18648, 19008, 19041.5, 19116,
19164, 19166, 19173, 19177, 19179, 19182, 19184, 19559, 23051.5,
23701s, 23701w, 23703.5, 23705, 23711, 23712, 24306, 24349, 24369.4,
24407, 24601, 24654, 24661.5, 24872, 24949.1, and 24949.3
</elephant:Title>


The problem with this element is that i want to have the values present in the structure <?xm-insertion_mark_start author="conversion process" time="20050620T175447-0800"?>
how do I identify this element? is it xm-insertion_mark_start ?
for accessing the value of the author shall i use, xm-insertion_mark_start@author?

Please help me in this. Thanks in advance.

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Vikrant Korde
3i Infotech, Vashi,
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

If the context node is the elephant:Title element, then you can access the content of the processing instruction using the XPath expression processing-instruction(xm-insertion_mark_start)

You've chosen to structure the processing instruction as a set of keyword-value pairs rather like the attributes in an element start tag, but that's an application convention rather than something imposed by the XML spec. (These are sometimes called pseudo-attributes for that reason). There's nothing in XSLT that's designed to help you extract the values of the pseudo-attributes, though there's an extension function in Saxon if that's the processor you're using.

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

Hey mhkay, it worked for me....

as faar as the pseudo atributes are concern i can got a way

<xsl:template match="processing-instruction('xm-deletion_mark')">

   <strike>
    <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after(current(), 'data=&quot;'), '&quot;')"/>
   </strike>

</xsl:template>

Thanks for timely help

Yes, that's fine as a pragmatic solution. Just be aware that your syntax for pseudo-attributes is not quite as flexible as the syntax for real XML attributes - it doesn't allow apostrophe as a delimiter, and it doesn't allow spaces around the equals sign. You code could also fail if there is another pseudo-attribute more-data="here to confuse".

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

Hi Michael,

I agree with you on this point. Rather i was also thinking about the spaces around = sign. But other than this i haven;t found any solution. One more guidance i need in the conext of processing instructions itself.
the element that i have as a prcessing instructions is having the XML code in it. and now i want to process that value. i.e. apply templates.....
e.g. here is the code

<?xm-deletion author="procs" time="20010713T180850-1820"
data="&lt;elephant:Billva id=&quot;id_BC98D89B-2502-4225-&quot;
xmlns:elephant=&quot;http:gogle.comelephant.1#&quo t;
xmlns:xhtml=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&quot;
xmlns:xlink=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink&quot;&gt;&lt;eleph...ant:Num&gt;SEC.
10.&lt;/elephant:Num&gt;&lt;elephant:ActionLine action=&quot;IS_AMENDED&quot;
xlink:href=&quot;urn:elephant:codes:EDC:elephant#x pointer(%2Felephant%3AJokeDoc%2
Felephant%3ACode%2Felephant%3AJokeHeading%5B%40typ e%3D....."?>

In this code i could get the value of the data attribute
The next problem was to remove the &lt; and &gt; that was solved by a replace function.
The problem that i am faing now is that i need to again do something like <apply-temlated select="$variable"/>

this doesn't work, please help me in this matter.

Thanks in advance.

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Vikrant Korde
3i Infotech, Vashi,
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.