It looks like he's trying to use the myIdRef="28" in the second String tag
to reference the contents of the first string tag which has a myId="28"
attribute value.  (i.e.: turning a reference in the input xml into the
contents of the reference in the output xml)

I'd think a template that took in the myIdRef attribute's value as a
parameter and selected the String tag with the same value in the myId
attribute and returned the contents would do the trick.

Unfortunately, I'm enough of a newbie myself, that attempting to provide an
example would just serve to embarass me.

	- Theo

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 1:25 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  Novice question: selecting an element based on an
attribute id


>   I'm an novice user of XSLT but was tasked to transform an
> incoming XML file into another format. So far so good but I
> ran into a perplexing problem. Here's the short example of an
> incoming XML file:
>
>     <object>
>         <class  name="TestF">
>             <field name="_str1" type="java.lang.String"/>
>             <field name="_str3" type="java.lang.String"/>
>         </class>
>         <String field="_str1" myId="28"><![CDATA[a test of
> referencing.]]></String>
>         <String field="_str3" myIdRef="28"/>
>     </object>
>
>   This needs to be transformed simply to
>
>   </object>
>         <_str1><![CDATA[a test of string referencing.]]></_str1>
>         <_str3><![CDATA[a test of string referencing.]]></_str3>
>     </object>
>
>   As you can see,

I may be blind, but I can't see. Could you explain more clearly the
relationship of your output to your input?

Michael Kay
Software AG
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work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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