RE: referencing a param inside a template

Yes, you're missing something called an attribute value
template (admittedly, the name is not intuitive). 

First, I'm assuming that you have something like 
this: 

<xsl:param name="ID" /> 

at the top of your stylesheet and this is the param 
that you are passing in. If so, change your syntax
to: 

 <xsl:template match="program">
 		<input type='hidden' name='unique-id'
 value='{$ID}'></input>
 </xsl:template>

The braces {} tell the XSLT engine to evaluate the content
which in this case is the parameter named ID.

Sara

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Barrett [mailto:JBarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 2:52 PM
> 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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