RE: xsl:if / variables / fancy / confusing

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Subject: RE: xsl:if / variables / fancy / confusing
From: "Johnathon Wright" <jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:39:19 -0600

Thanks! I was able to get everything to work properly. I ended up changing the XML for errors, but I had to use XML similar to that to populate the drop-downs that had already been selected.

If someone finds this in the archive, watch out for what I did with populating against previous submissions... I know that option_ids will not be duplicated for different attribute_ids. If that weren't the case, I would have had to replace the * with something else.

<xsl:for-each select="attribute"> <select name="attribute_{attribute_id}"> <xsl:if test="/configuration/details/errors/error/name = concat('attribute_', attribute_id)"> <xsl:attribute name="style">background-color:#FFCC00; color:red; font-weight:bolder;</xsl:attribute> </xsl:if>

<option value="">Select a <xsl:value-of select="attribute_name" /> </option> <xsl:for-each select="option">

<option value="{option_id}"> <xsl:if test="/configuration/request/* = option_id"> <xsl:attribute name="selected">TRUE</xsl:attribute> </xsl:if> <xsl:value-of select="option_name"/><xsl:if test="price_offset > 0"> - add <xsl:value-of select="format-number(price_offset, '$###,###,.00')" /></xsl:if></option>


    </xsl:for-each>
       </select>
   </xsl:for-each>

Hi Johnathon,

You cannot use attribute value templates within attributes that are expected to contain XPath expressions themselves. Not a very nice solution, but you could use:

<xsl:if test="/configuration/details/errors/*[local-name() = concat('attribute_', attribute_id)]"> <xsl:attribute name="style">xyz</xsl:attribute> </xsl:if>
Regards,
Geert

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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 22:37:44 -0000
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE:  xsl:if / variables / fancy / confusing

Don't try to pack meaning and structure into element names. Instead of
<attribute_285>, use <attribute id="285">. It's much easier to manipulate.

Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/

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