The default template rule for attributes copies the string value of the
attribute as text. Either copy the attributes explicitly using
<xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>, or write a template rule that copies them,

<xsl:template match="@*"><xsl:copy/></xsl:template>

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Bruce D'Arcus
> Sent: 23 November 2003 05:50
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  multi-document question
> 
> 
> 
> I'm a non-programmer relative newbie to xslt, and am stuck on the 
> following problem.  I want to take this sort of file:
> 
> <modsCollection>
> 	<mods id="1">
> 		<abc>one</abc>
> 	</mods>
> 	<mods id="2">
> 		<abc>two</abc>
> 	</mods>
> </modsCollection>
> 
> ...and to break it into individual files that exactly match 
> the content 
> of the mods element.  I also want these files to be named 
> based on the 
> id attribute on the mods element.  So, I'd like, for example, a file 
> called "1.mods" whose content is:
> 
> 	<mods id="1">
> 		<abc>one</abc>
> 	</mods>
> 
> Below is what I have so far, which is getting me individual files 
> correctly named, but content like this:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <mods>oneone</mods>
> 
> What am I doing wrong, and how do I fix it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bruce
> ================================
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
>                  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                  xmlns:exsl="http://exslt.org/common"
>                  extension-element-prefixes="exsl">
>        <xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" 
> indent="yes"/>
>           <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
> 
>     <xsl:template match="mods">
>          <exsl:document href="{@id}.mods" method="xml">
>          <xsl:copy>
>             <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
>          </xsl:copy>
>          </exsl:document>
>     </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
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