Re: xsl loop for display in drop-down box

your test for your if should be 
<xsl:if test="./@SELECTED='Y'">

sorry..I always get the path confused for test and
select. you need the ./ to indicate it is from the
current element(in this case from your for-each)

give this a try
Charlie

--- Seema Ramanathan <sramanathan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks Charlie. But like you said Stylus does not
> pick the attribute and
> Saxon gives me the following error:
> "Cannot write an attribute when there is no open
> start tag"
> 
> Like you mentioned i inserted the
> <FIRST Selected="Y">Nothing</FIRST>
> tag in my XML.
> 
> And then i used the following XSL:
> 
> <select name="FIRST">
> <xsl:variable name="tmp"><xsl:value-of
> select="FIRST/@SELECTED"/></xsl:variable>
>     <xsl:for-each select="FIRST">
>         <xsl:element name="option">
>         <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>          <xsl:if test="@SELECTED='Y'">
>               <xsl:attribute
> name="SELECTED"><xsl:value-of
> select="($tmp)"/></xsl:attribute>
>         </xsl:if>
>        </xsl:element>
>     </xsl:for-each>
> </select>
> 
> I get my drop down without a blank but the selected
> element is not displayed
> first in the drop-down.
> 
> Any more ideas????
> 
> Seema
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Charlie Cox <xmldev@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 5:21 AM
> Subject: Re: xsl loop for display in drop-down box
> 
> 
> > if you can, change your 'nothing' line to
> > <FIRST Selected="Y">Nothing</FIRST>
> > This will elimnate your blank line and still give
> you
> > the option to mark the selected entry.
> >
> > then you can change your <option>...</option> to
> the
> > following:
> >
> > <xsl:for-each select="FIRST">
> > <xsl:element name="option">
> >    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> >    <xsl:if select="@Selected='Y'">
> >       <xsl:attribute
> name="Selected">Y</xsl:attribute>
> >    </xsl:if>
> >    <xsl:value-of select="($tmp)"/>
> > </xsl:element>
> > </xsl:for-each>
> >
> > I have noticed the stylus editor version 1.0 does
> not
> > correctly pick up the attribute under the if
> command,
> > but it does work correctly in Xalan (EA release).
> I
> > have not yet tried this with Stylus 2.0,Xalan 1.0
> or
> > any other xsl parsers.
> >
> > hope this helps
> > Charlie
> >
> > --- Seema Ramanathan <sramanathan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have the following XML tag:
> > > <TITLE>
> > > <FIRST>Something</FIRST>
> > > <FIRST>Everything</FIRST>
> > > <FIRST Selected="Nothing"></FIRST>
> > > </TITLE>
> > >
> > > I want my XSL to display a drop down box with
> the
> > > first option to be the selected one - that is
> > > "Nothing" followed by the others (Something and
> > > Everything).
> > >
> > > Here is the XSL i use:
> > > <select name="FIRST">
> > > <xsl:variable name="tmp"><xsl:value-of
> > > select="FIRST/@SELECTED"/></xsl:variable>
> > > <xsl:if test="(normalize($tmp)=true())">
> > > <option><xsl:value-of select="($tmp)"/></option>
> > > <xsl:for-each select="MODEL">
> > > <option><xsl:value-of select="."/></option>
> > > </xsl:for-each>
> > > </xsl:if>
> > > </select>
> > >
> > > When i use the above XSL loop I get a drop down
> with
> > > "Nothing" displayed followed by "Something",
> > > "Everything" and another blank option. How do i
> get
> > > rid of the blank? I realize its coming from this
> > > line "
> > > <FIRST Selected="Nothing"></FIRST>".
> > >
> > > Is there any way i can ignore it?
> > >
> > > Any help??? Please and TIA
> > >
> > > Seema
> > >
> >
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