Problem updating an attribute that appears in both root node and child node!

[Tedros.G]

Hi
I have an attribute the appears in both the root node and child node
for example, below the attribute VERSION appears in the rood node
(PRODMSG ) and a child node (OPERATION )
================
INPUT XML
================
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<PRODMSG VERSION="1.2" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
ID="00051004_20070503024353">
<HEADER>
<OPERATION NAME="PRICE" VERSION="1.2">
<USERNAME>SMITGHJ</USERNAME>
<HOSTNAME>00051004</HOSTNAME>
<DATETIME>2007-05-03T01:30:16.710</DATETIME>
</OPERATION>
</HEADER>
</PRODMSG>

However all I want to do is update the root node (PRODMSG) VERSION
attribute to 2.0 but leave the child node version untouched. Problem
is if I select the PRODMSG and it's attributes and update the version
to 2.0

.......
<xsl:template match="@VERSION|PRODMSG">
<xsl:attribute name="VERSION">2.0</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
......

I get nothing but if I do this .......

================
TRANSFORM
================

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/
Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/

>

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@*|node()">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<!--UPDATE the version number to 2.0 -->
<xsl:template match="@VERSION">
<xsl:attribute name="VERSION">2.0</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
I get the following output (ALL the versions are updated to 2.0) .

================
OUTPUT XML
================
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<PRODMSG VERSION="2.0" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
ID="00051004_20070503024353">
<HEADER>
<OPERATION NAME="PRICE" VERSION="2.0">
<USERNAME>SMITGHJ</USERNAME>
<HOSTNAME>00051004</HOSTNAME>
<DATETIME>2007-05-03T01:30:16.710</DATETIME>
</OPERATION>
</HEADER>
</PRODMSG>

Please can you tell me what I am doing wrong....

Thank you
Ted

[Martin Honnen]

Te******@googlemail.com wrote:

<!--UPDATE the version number to 2.0 -->
<xsl:template match="@VERSION">

Change the match attribute to
<xsl:template match="PRODMSG/@VERSION">

<xsl:attribute name="VERSION">2.0</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/