> Is there a way to ignore an attribute or give it a default value if one
> wasn't set?

This came up as a side issue to a question I asked a couple of weeks ago.  A
fairly elegant solution relies on the fact that if an attribute is multiply
defined the last instance is used.  It also exploits the fact that a copy-of
only copies if there is something to copy. Eg:

	<input type="text">
		<xsl:copy-of select="@text"/>
		<xsl:copy-of select="@value"/>
		<xsl:copy-of select="@size"/>
		<xsl:copy-of select="@maxsize"/>
	</input>

will give the type attribute a default of "text" and override it with any
supplied only if there is in fact a text attribute.  The rest of the
attributes are only created if they were passed in.


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