[xquery-talk] renaming single attributes

[Howard Katz]

Obviously trivial if your implementation does update! If not, then there's
always Mike's wd-sanctioned solution.
Howard 

 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: Jason Hunter [mailto:jhunter at xquery.com] 
 > Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 2:02 PM
 > To: Howard Katz
 > Cc: talk at xquery.com
 > Subject: Re: [xquery-talk] renaming single attributes
 > 
 > > What's the easiest and/or most concise way of effecting a 
 > > transformation that renames a single named attribute, if 
 > present, and 
 > > leaves everything else the same?  For example, I might 
 > want to rename 
 > > every occurrence of
 > > @att3 (two instances below) as @NEW-att3. Here's some 
 > sample "before" data:
 > > 
 > >     <record att1="att1" att3="att3" att4="att4">content1</record>
 > >     <record att3="att3" att4="att4">content2</record>
 > >     <record att4="att4" att5="att5">content3</record>
 > > 
 > > Here's the "after" version of the same. Note that all nodes except 
 > > @att3 remains the same:
 > > 
 > >     <record att1="att1" NEW-att3="att3" 
 > att4="att4">content1</record>
 > >     <record NEW-att3="att3" att4="att4">content2</record>
 > >     <record att4="att4" att5="att5">content3</record>
 > > 
 > > What's the simplest document tranformation that will 
 > accomplish this goal?
 > > Howard
 > 
 > As I know you've been using MarkLogic Server for some of 
 > your work, here's how you'd do it there:
 > 
 > for $att3 in $doc//@att3
 > return
 > xdmp:node-replace($att3, attribute { "NEW-att3" } { string($att3) })
 > 
 > -jh-
 >