Re: multiple XML tags -> single output

zbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Well, I've tried but it doesn't seem to work... that part of the XSL file
> doesn't produce any output at all when I use concat().

concat() *will* work, if you fix the XPath expressions. The example I
posted was slightly wrong because in my haste I didn't look at your
original XML; I made the mistake of assuming that the person who had
suggested multiple <xsl:value-of>s had the correct expressions.

I apologize for not giving you a perfect answer. The idea was to show you
how to produce the text you wanted using one xsl:value-of instruction, not
to do your homework for you.

>     <xsl:template match="a">
>         <a href="<xsl:value-of select="@href"/>"><xsl:value-of select="."/></a>
>     </xsl:template>

This is wrong because XSL is XML, and XML has rules of well-formedness
that you violated when you said that an element (the first
xsl:value-of) was another element's attribute value (the href="...").

XSLT offers a convenient syntax for calculating the values of attributes
in a literal result element... curly braces:

<a href="{@href}">
  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</a>

A more verbose syntax is to create the literal result element and add its
attribute via a separate instruction:

<a>
  <xsl:attribute name="href">
     <xsl:value-of select="@href"/>
  </xsl:attribute>
  <xsl:value-of select="."/>
</a>

You are not going to get very far if you think of <xsl:value-of> as a
macro that results in text string substitution. You would do well to learn
what XSLT is really doing. 

Nodes are not tags, and tags are not literal text strings that you
are serially pasting together to produce the output you want.

   - Mike
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webb.net in Denver, Colorado, USA              http://skew.org/xml/


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