Question

I am trying to return a computed element with a computed attribute. I have Google’d and RTFM’d this.

Assume the element name and attribute name are in variables:

let $elname := "book"
let $attrname := "title"

I know I can create an element with:

element {$elname} {'content'}

and an attribute:

attribute {$attrname} {'value'}

But how do I create:

<book title="something"/>  

I’ve tried every permutation I can imagine. Thanks very much.

Answer 1

Try:

element {$elname} {attribute {$attrname} {'something'}}

Here’s an example of <book> also containing content:

element {$elname} {attribute {$attrname} {'something'},'foo'}

This would produce:

<book title="something">foo</book>