Re: Copy atrribute

Hello,

On occasion I confess I have used p:label-element to get around this -- it
accepts an XPath to be evaluated, not just a string.

Regards, Wendell


On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM Norm Tovey-Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:

> <denis.maier@unibe.ch> writes:
> > I need to copy the value of an attribute to another attribute. Should be
> easy, but no success so far. This here won’t work:
> >
> > <p:add-attribute match="*[@data-custom-style]" attribute-name="class">
> >             <p:with-option name="attribute-value"
> > select="'@data-custom-style'"></p:with-option>
> >         </p:add-attribute>
>
> No, that’s not really how the add-attribute step works. No matter what you
> do to initialize the attribute-value option, it’s going to get that value
> at the beginning of the step; it’s not going to get recalculated for each
> match.
>
> It’s interesting that this has never come up before. I wonder how many
> other steps with “match” attributes have use cases where this would be
> useful behavior.
>
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
>
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