RE: How to put node value into an attribute

> I am trying to get the value of an XML node into an attribute 
> of a tag 
> that I am generating in XSL.  The idea is something like this.
> 
> 
> <input type='text' name='<xsl:value-of select="@name"/>'/>
> 
> 
> Where the xsl:value-of (this is within a template) becomes translated 
> into the value of the input attribute in the output.  This does not 
> work, however.  I get this from xalan.

Because it's not well-formed XML. When you were reading the XSLT spec, you must have missed AWTs <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#attribute-value-templates>:

  <input type='text' name='{@name}'/>

Cheers,

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