Re: AW: '<' and '>' in the value of a variable

<xsl:template name="printRawData">
    <xsl:param name="field_label"/>
    <xsl:param name="field"/>
    <xsl:param name="html"/>
    <xsl:param name="bold"/>
    <xsl:param name="endbold"/>
    <xsl:param name="return"/>

    <xsl:if test="string-length($field) &gt; 0">
        <xsl:value-of select="$bold"/>
        <xsl:value-of select="$field_label"/>
        <xsl:value-of select="$endbold"/>
        <xsl:value-of select="xmlconf:convertLWWEntities($field)"/>
    </xsl:if>
    <xsl:value-of select="$return"/>

Hello Ming,

you don't tell us why you think you need to do this, so my first advice is,
write it as:

<b><xsl:value-of select="'Article: '"/></b>

This is much simpler and it is working. (even simpler is: <b>Article: </b>)

In the case you want to calculate the formatting somehow in the stylesheet,
or pass it in as a parameter, try:

<xsl:variable name="bold">b</xsl:variable>

<xsl:element name="{$bold}">
  <xsl:value-of select="'Article: '"/>
</xsl:element>

Hope this helps,
Markus
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Markus Abt
Comet Computer GmbH
http://www.comet.de

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Von:    Ming Yu
Gesendet:       Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2003 18:43
An:     xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff:         '<' and '>' in the value of a variable

Hi,

I'm thinking about putting one of my html tag (bold) in the variable like this:

<xsl:variable name="bold" select="'&lt;b&gt;'"/>
<xsl:variable name="endbold" select="'&lt;/b&gt;'"/>

And then, in the output, I use the values like this:
<xsl:value-of select="$bold"/><xsl:value-of select="'Article:
'"/><xsl:value-of select="$endbold"/>

But the problem is that, when it prints out on the browser, it prints out
<b> and </b> instead of making the "Article:" string bold.

And I cannot put '<' and '>' directly in my variables.

Do you have any suggestion how I might be able to do this?

Thanks in advance.

Ming



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