Re: transform an attribute to an element

Messagebut it failed when using Quip from SoftwareAG. I think the function text() can only apply to elements, not to attributes.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Davies 
  To: Chen Ya Bing 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 1:06 AM
  Subject: RE: transform an attribute to an element


  Hello,

  You can do this fairly simply with a for loop and element constructors, like this:

  for $x in /test
  return
      <test>
          <a>{$x/@a/text()}</a>
          {$x/b}
      </test>

  where the text() is necessary to make sure that the value of @a gets returned
  rather than having it remain an attribute.  Basically this loop just takes
  the original document apart and then re-assemble it without the attribute but with
  the new child element.

  Hope that helps (I'm still learning this stuff also... :-)
  Jim Davies
  Senior Engineer
  Neocore Inc.
  jdavies@neocore.com

  "There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path."
  -- Morpheus, "The Matrix"


    -----Original Message-----
    From: Chen Ya Bing [mailto:iscp0054@nus.edu.sg] 
    Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 2:04 AM
    To: www-ql@w3.org
    Subject: transform an attribute to an element


    Hi,

    who can tell me if I can use XQuery to transform an attribute to an element?

    for example, the document is 
                <test a="123">
                     <b>321</b>
                </test>

    I'd like to transform the attribute "a" to an element of test.

                <test>
                   <a>123</a>
                   <b>321</b>
                </test>

    thank you!