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Paul Cleverley

Subject: embed in href=''
Author: Paul Cleverley
Date: 22 Aug 2002 05:47 AM

Hi

Newbie question - sorry if it's trivial.

My XSL stylesheet contains and tag (xsl:output is html). I need to insert an XML element value as the href value.

Patently, "> generates an error.

I appreciate this has got to be a fairly common requirement but I can't find examples or help on this anywhere. Any ideas?

Many thanks
Paul

(Deleted User)

Subject: Re: embed in href=''
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 22 Aug 2002 05:58 AM

At 06.02 22/08/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>From: "Paul Cleverley"
>
>Hi
>
>Newbie question - sorry if it's trivial.
>
>My XSL stylesheet contains and tag (xsl:output is html). I
>need to insert an XML element value as the href value.
>
>Patently, "> generates an error.
>
>I appreciate this has got to be a fairly common requirement but I can't
>find examples or help on this anywhere. Any ideas?

Hi Paul,
you have the choice between two syntaxes:

a) <a href="{URL}"/>
b) <xsl:element name="a">
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="URL"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>

Hope this helps,
Alberto

Paul Cleverley

Subject: Re: embed in href=''
Author: Paul Cleverley
Date: 22 Aug 2002 06:39 AM

Yes indeedy! Thanks!

Paul Cleverley

Subject: Re: embed in href=''
Author: Paul Cleverley
Date: 22 Aug 2002 07:04 AM

Nearly but not quite - I can't get the { to work at all so I tried it with xsl:element and ran into this problem. The HTML I want is:

where xurl and xsrc are the xsl:value-of results of two XML elements.

with the route I can do the tag but I can't then embed the tag inside it - it generates and error...

Help??

Cheers
Paul

(Deleted User)

Subject: Re: embed in href=''
Author: (Deleted User)
Date: 22 Aug 2002 09:14 AM

At 07.19 22/08/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Nearly but not quite - I can't get the { to work at all

Strange; <a href="{URL}"><img
src="{PICTURE}"></img></a>
works fine for me. Remember, you need to put between { and } the XPath
expressions only, not the entire xsl:value-of (the { } syntax is a shortcut
for xsl:value-of)

>so I tried it with xsl:element and ran into this problem. The HTML I want is:
>
><A HREF="xurl"><IMG src="xsrc"></IMG></A>
>
>where xurl and xsrc are the xsl:value-of results of two XML elements.
>
>with the <xsl:element> route I can do the <A> tag but I can't
>then embed the <IMG> tag inside it - it generates and error...

To embed the IMG tag with the second construct, you need to nest another
xsl:element statement inside the first one, like

<xsl:element name="A">
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="URL"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:element name="IMG">
<xsl:attribute name="src">
<xsl:value-of select="PICTURE"/>
</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:element>

Alberto

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