RE: Newbie Question with @value

The "choice" element in your data does not have an attribute called "value",
so @value returns nothing. You want the string-value of the element, which
you can get using ".".

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Falls, Travis D (HTSC, CASD) 
> [mailto:Travis.Falls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 28 March 2006 20:59
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Newbie Question with @value
> 
> I have the following XSLT which is from an example:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" 
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:asp="remove">
> 	<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="utf-8" 
> omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
> 	<xsl:template match="/">
> 		<table>
> 			<xsl:for-each select="//question">
> 				<tr>
> 					<td valign="top">
> 						<xsl:value-of 
> select="@name"/>
> 						<xsl:if 
> test="@required = 'yes'">
> 							
> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ErrorMessage="Required Field" 
> runat="server" ControlToValidate="{@name}"/>
> 						</xsl:if>
> 					</td>
> 					<td>
> 						<xsl:if 
> test="@type='text'">
> 							
> <asp:TextBox id="{@name}" runat="server"/>
> 						</xsl:if>
> 						<xsl:if 
> test="@type='radio'">
> 							
> <asp:RadioButtonList id="{@name}" runat="server">
> 								
> <xsl:for-each select="choice">
> 								
> 	<asp:ListItem Value="{@value}">
> 								
> 		<xsl:value-of select="@value"/>
> 								
> 	</asp:ListItem>
> 								
> </xsl:for-each>
> 							
> </asp:RadioButtonList>
> 						</xsl:if>
> 					</td>
> 				</tr>
> 			</xsl:for-each>
> 		</table>
> 		<asp:button id="submit" runat="server" Text="Submit"/>
> 	</xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> I have the following XML file:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <survey name="Example Survey">
> 	<question type="text" name="Title" required="yes"/>
> 	<question type="text" name="Industry"/>
> 	<question type="radio" name="Education">
> 		<choice>High School</choice>
> 		<choice>Some College</choice>
> 		<choice>College</choice>
> 	</question>
> </survey>
> 
> 
> and I get the following output using XMLSpy (and with my C# code)
> <table xmlns:asp="remove">
> 	<tr>
> 		<td 
> valign="top">Title<asp:RequiredFieldValidator 
> ErrorMessage="Required Field" runat="server" 
> ControlToValidate="Title"/></td>
> 		<td>
> 			<asp:TextBox id="Title" runat="server"/>
> 		</td>
> 	</tr>
> 	<tr>
> 		<td valign="top">Industry</td>
> 		<td>
> 			<asp:TextBox id="Industry" runat="server"/>
> 		</td>
> 	</tr>
> 	<tr>
> 		<td valign="top">Education</td>
> 		<td>
> 			<asp:RadioButtonList id="Education" 
> runat="server">
> 				<asp:ListItem Value=""></asp:ListItem>
> 				<asp:ListItem Value=""></asp:ListItem>
> 				<asp:ListItem Value=""></asp:ListItem>
> 			</asp:RadioButtonList>
> 		</td>
> 	</tr>
> </table>
> <asp:button xmlns:asp="remove" id="submit" runat="server" 
> Text="Submit"/>
> 
> my question is why isn't the Value or Text of the ListItem 
> being filled in?  I can't seem to put 2 and 2 together here.  
> Any links to help debug this would be greatly apprecated.  Thanks all.
> 
> Travis D. Falls | Consultant   RAFT.Net   IT | 860.547.4070 | 
> travis.falls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Travis D. Falls | Consultant   RAFT.Net   IT | 860.547.4070 | 
> travis.falls@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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