Thanks Michael, you are correct.  Your XSLT book (2nd ed.) in fact had the answer I needed.  I just got hold of a copy.

Good stuff by the way!

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mhk@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 1:38 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  Parsing XML tag attributes


> 
> Have I overcomplicated the XML by using class with an element 
> attribute?  Would it make more sense to use this?
> 
> <class>
> 	<element>TestType</element>
> 	<documentation>Doc for TestType</documentation>
> </class>
> 

No, processing attributes in XSLT is just as easy as processing
elements.

Any XSLT textbook or tutorial will have examples of how to do this.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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