XML Attribute values

[Vemund Olstad]

Hi

I have encountered a problem with attribute values in some of my XML files, and I was wondering if anyone here could help out. In some elements in my encoding of some poems I have the TEI attribute realAn in the l element, and I am using the values 'Y', 'N', 'single' and 'double' as standard values.

The problem here, I suspect, is not really in the XML encoding, but in the stylesheet that is supposed to display the file. I would like to create a standard display text in the output file, based on the realAn attribute, but the following XSLT/XPath does not work the way I would like it to:

<xsl:if test="attribute::realAn='N'">

What I expected this to do was to target all elements where the value of realAn is 'N', and then display a standard text. What it seems to do however, is to treat the test as a boolean and print out the standard text for all elements that does not contain the realAn attribute at all (which is quite a few, since realAn denotes deviating anacrucis).

So, my questions are simply:

1) how can I get around this with the current encoding

and

2) are 'N' and 'Y' attribute values that should be avoided in XML, as they can cause problems for stylesheets?

Any hints or pointers would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Vemund

 

[Richard Tobin]

<xsl:if test="attribute::realAn='N'">

What I expected this to do was to target all elements where the value of realAn is 'N', and then display a standard text. What it seems to do however, is to treat the test as a boolean and print out the standard text for all elements that does not contain the realAn attribute at all (which is quite a few, since realAn denotes deviating anacrucis).

This shouldn't happen.

You don't have a DTD defaulting realAn to N do you?

-- Richard

 

[Vemund Olstad]

This shouldn't happen.

You don't have a DTD defaulting realAn to N do you?

-- Richard

Ah....yes I do. The people responsible for the project dtd has changed it from #IMPLIED to a default value.

Thank you so much.

Vemund