RE: referencing a param inside a template

Look up "attribute value templates".

value="{$ID}"

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Jeff Barrett
> Sent: 20 May 2002 22:52
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  referencing a param inside a template
> 
> 
> I am trying to reference information passed into an XSL 
> stylesheet (via java's transformer.setParameter() method) in 
> the output of a template, but I'm running into some trouble.  
> My output is html and the parameter I'm passing in needs to 
> be an attribute value in the html.  I've tried this two ways. 
>  First I tried putting the parameter directly into the output 
> HTML like so:
> 
> 
> <xsl:template match="program">
> 		<input type='hidden' name='unique-id'
> value='$ID'></input>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> This results in the $ID NOT being evaluated as a paramter or 
> variable, but the plain string "$ID".
> 
> My next attempt was to use the xsl:value-of tag:
> 
> <xsl:template match="program">
> 		<input type='hidden' name='unique-id'
> value='<xsl:value-of select="$ID"'></input>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> But that won't work because according to the error I get: 
> attribute values may not contain '<'.
> 
> Am I missing something?  Are params/variables only to be used 
> in XPath expressions?
> 
> thanks,
> +jeff
> 
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