Re: Variables and HTML

The relevant code is the "modifyDefinition" template.  Please run it and see
what is generated.  The issue are the entity references inside the variable.

Thanks,
Carmelo

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
                xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:preserve-space elements="*"/>

<xsl:param name="heading" />
<xsl:variable name="italicOpen">">&lt;i></xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="italicClose">&lt;/i></xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="anchorOpen">&lt;a href="</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="anchorClose">&lt;/a></xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="varContentOpen">#{</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="varContentClose">}</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="glossary">

       <h1 align="CENTER"><xsl:value-of select="$heading" /></h1>
       <CENTER><A name="index"></A>
       <a href="#A">A</a> |
       <a href="#B">B</a> |
       <a href="#C">C</a> |
       <a href="#D">D</a> |
       <a href="#E">E</a> |
       <a href="#F">F</a> |
       <a href="#G">G</a> |
       <a href="#H">H</a> |
       <a href="#I">I</a> |
       <a href="#J">J</a> |
       <a href="#K">K</a> |
       <a href="#L">L</a> |
       <a href="#M">M</a> |
       <a href="#N">N</a> |
       <a href="#O">O</a> |
       <a href="#P">P</a> |
       <a href="#Q">Q</a> |
       <a href="#R">R</a> |
       <a href="#S">S</a> |
       <a href="#T">T</a> |
       <a href="#U">U</a> |
       <a href="#V">V</a> |
       <a href="#W">W</a> |
       <a href="#X">X</a> |
       <a href="#Y">Y</a> |
       <a href="#Z">Z</a> </CENTER>

<xsl:template name="modifyDefinition">
 <xsl:param name="counter"/>
 <xsl:param name="outputDefinition"/>
 <xsl:param name="howManyTerms"/>

   <xsl:call-template name="modifyDefinition">
        <xsl:with-param name="counter" select="$counter+1"/>
        <xsl:with-param name="outputDefinition" select="$outputDefinition"/>
        <xsl:with-param name="howManyTerms" select="$howManyTerms - 1"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:when>

You mention that you need to have entities inside the variable. However,
without seeing more of your XML and XSL and knowing more about what you
want to produce, I don't see the need for the entities inside the
variable. The variable could contain just the href value, in which case
you could do this:

<dd><a href="{$variable1}">Link text (from another variable,
perhaps)</a></dd>

If you show us more about why you need to have the entities in the
variable, perhaps we can offer more help.

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services
(presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies)

Carmelo Montanez <carmelo@xxxxxxxx>
03/10/2005 12:46 PM
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Subject
 Variables and HTML

Folks:

I am sure this been debated before to the ground.  I have
a variable that have entities as part of its contents as in the
following

variable1 = "< A href = ....."

I am trying to output this as html

<dd><xsl:value-of select = "$variable1"/></dd>

The problem is that when I get the HTML, I still have the entities
inside the variables causing the HTML browser to display the wrong thing

My final HML looks something like this:

<DD>A &lt;a href="Ballot"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Ballot&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; prepared
or &lt;a href="cast"&gt;&lt;{i&gt;cast&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by a voter
other
than at a regular polling place.</DD>

I will like to have all those entities resolved.  I need to use the
entities inside the
variable because I am doing a lot of manipulations with it.

Thanks,
Carmelo