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David StruckSubject: Problem accessing attribute value
Author: David Struck
Date: 31 May 2007 08:30 PM
I have the following XSL file (ignore the ??? for now):

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/strict">

<xsl:template match="/Greeting">
<html>

<body>

<xsl:for-each select="PeopleToGreet/Person">

<p>??? <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>!</p>

</xsl:for-each>

</body>

</html>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

I want to use this XSL on the following XML file:

<Greeting value="Hello">
<PeopleToGreet>
<Person name="David"/>
<Person name="John"/>
<Person name="Mark"/>
</PeopleToGreet>
</Greeting>

I want the transformation to generate this HTML:

<html>

<body>

<p>Hello David!</p>

<p>Hello John!</p>

<p>Hello Mark!</p>

</body>

</html>

What do I replace the ??? in the XSL file with to get this result? I've tried putting,

<xsl:value-of select="/Greeting@value"/>

but it seems you can only reference an attribute in a value-of element by specifying the attribute alone and making sure the "context" element at that point is correct. In this case, I can't do that...the two attributes I want are on different elements.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

David

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Ivan PedruzziSubject: Problem accessing attribute value
Author: Ivan Pedruzzi
Date: 31 May 2007 10:07 PM

replace

<p>??? <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>!</p>

with

<p><xsl:value-of select="concat(../../@value, ' ', @name, '!')"/></p>



Ivan Pedruzzi
Stylus Studio Team
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David StruckSubject: Problem accessing attribute value
Author: David Struck
Date: 01 Jun 2007 05:18 PM
Thanks Ivan, that worked! Also, the concat function seems very useful. I'm an XSL newbie so the help is very much appreciated.

David
   
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