Hi

I have in my xsl file something like this:
<tag1 atr1="{A/B/@atr}"
      atr2="{A/B/@atr}">
</tag1>
Now {A/B/@atr} returns 2 values and I want the first to be assigned to atr1 and the second to atr2. For the way it is now (described above) I get:
<tag1 atr1="val1 val2"
         atr2="val1 val2">
</tag1>
Instead I want:
<tag1 atr1="val1"
         atr2="val2">
</tag1>
So how should I change the xsl file to achieve this? I use Saxon 8 and XSLT 2.0. Thank you.

Michael

Note that there's actually a difference here between 1.0 and 2.0 - in 1.0 you'll always get the first value, in 2.0 you get all the values space separated.

To choose a specific value, write atr1="{(A/B/@atr)[1]}" or atr2="{(A/B/@atr)[2]}".

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

Thank you for your reply. I tried something similar to your solution, mainly ...="{A/B/@atr}[1]", thinking that what comes out from the {A/B/@atr} is kind of an array of values and I only need to choose the first one. Of course it did not work, so I thought that the solution would not be that easy, so I tried various schemes, like using para[1], or the last() function, or different other functions or combinations. I obviously lack some basic knowledge, but XSLT is starting to grow on me.

Michael

In an attribute value template the curly braces enclose an XPath expression. Anything outside the curlies is literal text to be copied to the result document.

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

I understand now, thank you for the information.

Michael