RE: how concat() attributes of several elements

>How could I concatenate all the city attributes so that the result is
>"washingtondetroitdallas" and assign it to a variable.

<xsl:variable name="cities">
  <xsl:for-each select="//location/@city">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>

You can then access it using $cities.  It good practice to provide a
more explicit path than '//'

cheers
andrew


-----Original Message-----
From: Lloyd, Colin [mailto:clloyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 11 June 2002 16:20
To: 'XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject:  how concat() attributes of several elements


Hello, 

I am struggling with unupdateable characteristics of xsl variables.  If
I
have the following xml fragment.

<map>
	<location  country="us" city="washington"/>
	<location  country="us" city="detroit"/>
	<location  country="us" city="dallas"/>
</mapr>

How could I concatenate all the city attributes so that the result is
"washingtondetroitdallas" and assign it to a variable.  In java I would
normally
set up a for loop and concat the result of the first iteration to the
subsequent iteration and so on...

Thanks


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