RE: More fun with MSIE

Well this is an interesting question: What does "." stand for? Current 
'something'. I think in the draft it refers to the current element, i.e., 
generally the element matched by the template/select combination. With the MS 
implementation, I'm not so sure of this.				...edN

-----Original Message-----
From:	Steve Muench [SMTP:SMUENCH@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:	Sunday, November 15, 1998 8:04 PM
To:	xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:	Re: More fun with MSIE

| o Lack of support for attribute value templates.  Expressions usable
|  in <xsl:value-of/> are also usable inside attribute values,
|  delimited by {...} in the WD.  MSIE does not support this, making
|  generated links impossible.  For example:
|
|  <xsl:template match="email">
|    <A HREF="mailto:{.}";>
|      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
|    </A>
|  </xsl:template>

I'm not familiar with what the "." syntax is implying, but I was able
to get a simple example like this to work fine.

The Data
--------
<stuff>
  <email foobar="smuench"/>
</stuff>

The Stylesheet
--------------
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl">
<xsl:template >
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="email">
  <a><xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:eval>"mailto:";</xsl:eval><xsl:value-of
select="@foobar"/></xsl:attribute></a>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

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