an example involving xsl:attribute in kay's book:

  <table>
   <xsl:attribute border="2"/>


I hope that isn't the example as xsl:attribute doesn't have a border
attribute.

Assuming the example is 
<xsl:attribute name="border">2</xsl:attribute>
then yes it's the same as using a literal result element attribute
in this case.

David

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