On Sun, 02 Dec 2001 18:48:27 +0000 Michael Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hiya there, I apologise in advance if this is not the place to post > technical queries by the way, but this seemed the best place on the site > so here goes: > > I have a question about how to use XUpdate that has not been addressed > by reading and rereading the working draft, could you please answer it > for me? > > I was wondering - how do I change an attribute on an element? I've tried > (root element not included): > > <xupdate:update select="/user/profile/dob"> > <xupdate:attribute name="year">1979</xupdate:attribute> > </xupdate:update> > > but I got a compilation error (using dbXML) > > where the element at /user/profile/dob is > > <dob month="April" day="17" year="1984"/> Select the Attribute node you want to update and use the new content as the Text node of the <update> element. Elements like <attribute> are used for <insert> and <append> operations, but not for updates. Regards, Lars. -- ______________________________________________________________________ Lars Martin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SMB GmbH http://www.smb-tec.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Post a message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Read archived messages: http://archive.xmldb.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
