node-set question.

BuckBazooka · November 12th, 2010, 10:13 AM

Hi,

I construct a node-set with the following code. I am using saxon9ee.

Code:

<xsl:variable name="countriesSortedRTF">
  <xsl:when test="$sortColumn = 'CC'">
    <xsl:for-each select="$countries">
      <xsl:sort select="@CC" order="{$sortDirection}" />
      <xsl:copy-of select=".|@*" /> <!-- Line 58 -->
    </xsl:for-each> 
  </xsl:when>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:variable name="countriesSorted" select="$countriesSortedRTF/CTRY"/>

I get the following error:

Code:

Error at xsl:copy-of on line 58 of commonheader.xsl:
  XTDE0420: Cannot create an attribute node (id) whose parent is a document node. Most
  recent element start tag was output at line 58 of module commonheader.xsl
  at xsl:for-each (file:/C:/ReportsXSLT2_0/bin/com/display/domain/templates/commonheader.xsl#56)

Could someone explain the meaning of this error? I'm a bit lost. Thanks a lot.

Martin Honnen · November 12th, 2010, 10:20 AM

I guess you simply want

Code:

<xsl:copy-of select="."/>

as that makes a deep copy of each node you process in the for-each. Currently you are copying each node and each of its attributes and you can put an attribute node in a document (which a variable set up as you do is).

mhkay · November 12th, 2010, 01:05 PM

xsl:when is not allowed as a child of xsl:variable, so I don't see how you could possibly have got this error with this code.

BuckBazooka · November 15th, 2010, 11:35 AM

Thanks Martin. That did the trick.

It was important for me to keep the attributes, but as you say since it is a deep copy they were copied anyway but now they are not copied for the document node.