At 21:16 03/01/2002 +0100, Jochen Hein wrote: >I'm converting Docbook into a given DTD and have problems mapping >xref. It looks pretty easy: >Docbook: <xref linkend="something"/> is going to be ><xref xlink:href="something"/> in the foreign DTD. > >My template > ><xsl:template match="xref"> > <xref> > <xsl:attribute name="xlink:href"><xsl:value-of > select="@linkend"/></xsl:attribute> > </xref> ></xsl:template> > >generates <xref href="something"/>, so I assume that gives me problems >with some sort of namespace. So my question is, how do I generate an >attribute name with a colon?
the colon is for namespace seperation. Either use a qname element or recognise the ns axis, HTH DaveP
