RE: [xml-dev] JAXP's ID Transform failing to include namespace declaration attributes

> Actually, the real bug is that XSLT doesn't provide *any* way
> to create an
> ID attribute in the result, or even to test whether a given
> attribute in the
> source tree is an ID attribute. (If someone could prove me
> wrong on this
> latter point, I'd greatly appreciate it!)

You are correct.

Given <a id1="xyz" id2="xyz"/> I can determine (laboriously) that the
element has an ID attribute whose value is "xyz", but I cannot determine
which of id1 or id2 is the ID attribute.

Mike Kay