Re: default attribute values?

--- Michael <mogmios at mlug dot missouri dot edu> wrote:

> 
> Is there a way to ignore an attribute or give it a default value if
> one
> wasn't set?
> 
> For example I have
> <text name='n' value'x'/>
> and want to output
> <input type='text' name='n' value='x'/>
> but also want to allow for cases where size and/or maxlength
> attributes
> are
> passed through such as
> <input type='text' name='n' value='x' size='10' maxlength='20'/>
> .
> 
> Right now I'm producing
> <input type='text' name='n' value='x' size='' maxlength=''/>
> which obviously is not producing very nice output.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Hi Michael,

This is one way for specifying default values of missing attributes:

  <input type="{name()}" name="{@name}" value="{@value}"
         size="{not(@size)*$vDefltSize + concat('0', @size)}"


Hope this helped.



=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL

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