Problems using 2.2.D14

[Cliff Draper <Cl...@sun.com>]

Hi,

Recently a coworker of mine tried sending the below email and I think
it bounced.  I'm curious if this is a known problem and/or if there's
a workaround.

thanks,
Cliff Draper    Sun Microsystems, Forte Tools
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From: Jeff Norton <je...@sun.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2002 16:21:55 -0800
> I upgraded recently from xalan 2.1.0 to 2.2.D14 and experienced two 
> regressions:
> 
>     1) the <xsl:copy-of> directive no longer makes a verbatim copy.  In 
> particular
>        items like <xsl:if test="foo"> become <if test="foo">
> 
>     2) the directive: <xsl:attribute 
> name="@TRANSFORM_ATTRIBUTES@">1.0</xsl:attribute>
>        now outputs nothing.  It used to put a @TRANSFORM_ATTRIBUTES@="1.0" 
> attribute
>        on whatever element was currently in progress.
> 
>        A little more context:  I was trying to generate:
> 
> <xsl:transform 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" 
> xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xslt" version="1.0">
> 
>        But the obvious:
> 
> <xsl:element name="xsl:transform">
>      <xsl:attribute 
> name="xmlns:xsl">http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform</xsl:attribute>
>      <xsl:attribute 
> name="xmlns:xalan">http://xml.apache.org/xslt</xsl:attribute>
>      <xsl:attribute name="version">1.0</xsl:attribute>
> </xsl:element>
> 
>        didn't work.  So I resorted to the following hack:
> 
> <xsl:element name="xsl:transform">
>      <xsl:attribute name="@TRANSFORM_ATTRIBUTES@">1.0</xsl:attribute>
> </xsl:element>
> 
>        Using a subsequent ANT copy filter that substituted 
> @TRANSFORM_ATTRIBUTES@
>        with the proper string.
> 
> Is there any way to work around these problems?  Is there a fixed version?
> 
> Thanks,
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