Re: Problem with <a> conversion

Hi Ashu,

> i am trying to convert html to wml using xslt. when there is <a> tag
> in html i am trying to fetch the href of that and send that to my
> php program which is using xslt to convert it into wml.but it is
> giving error.
> i tried
>   <xsl:template match="div/a | center/a | p/a | ul/a | li/a | tr/a
> | td/a | th/a | table/a | font/a">
>           <xsl:variable name="url">
>           <xsl:value-of select="@href"/>
>           </xsl:variable>
>           <a 
> href="http://localhost/ashu/transform.php?url=@href">
>           <xsl:value-of select="."/></a>
>     </xsl:template>

What you're creating here are a elements like:

  <a href="http://localhost/ashu/transform.php?url=@href">
    ...
  </a>

In other words, the value of the url parameter passed to your
transform.php script is always the literal string '@href'. You want to
pass the *value* of the 'href' attribute instead, so use {}s around
the '@href' as follows:

<xsl:template match="a">
  <a href="http://localhost/ashu/transform.php?url={@href}">
    <xsl:apply-templates />
  </a>
</xsl:template>

(BTW, it's a good idea to use xsl:apply-templates rather than
xsl:value-of in the content of the a element in case the a element
contains other markup.)

Cheers,

Jeni

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Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/


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