Re: generating mailto

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Subject: Re: generating mailto
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:01:02 -0400

At 2002-10-11 01:42 -0400, Steve Salkin wrote:

I'm just getting my feet wet in XSL and it's pretty interesting. I think
I am missing something though,

Yes, you are treating XSLT as an "angle-bracket processor" when, in fact, it is a "node tree processor".

You need to represent the node tree structure of your result in the node tree structure of your stylesheet ... see http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200210/msg00411.html for a recent post where I try to emphasize this point.

Don't try to construct the resulting syntax, because your objective as a stylesheet writer isn't to build syntax, but to build structure.

...
For example, if I have XML
<contact>
  <email>xxx@xxxxxxxxx</email>
</contact>

and I want to generate a mailto URI like this:
<a href="xxx@xxxxxxxxx>xxx@xxxxxxxxx</a>

In the example below I am using an attribute value template in the href attribute to evaluate the value of the <email> child of the <contact> element, and the <xsl:value-of> instruction to get at the same content for the canvas.

I hope this helps.

............... Ken

T:\ftemp>type salkin.xml
<contact>
  <email>xxx@xxxxxxxxx</email>
</contact>

T:\ftemp>type salkin.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="contact">
  <td class="contact">
    <a href="mailto:{email}";>
       <xsl:value-of select="email"/>
    </a>
  </td>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\ftemp>xt salkin.xml salkin.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<td class="contact"><a href="mailto:xxx@xxxxxxxxx";>xxx@xxxxxxxxx</a></td>
T:\ftemp>


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- Steve Salkin - Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:40:53 -0400 (EDT)
  - Manish Shah - Fri, 11 Oct 2002 13:55:00 -0400 (EDT)
  - Jeni Tennison - Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:08:51 -0400 (EDT)
  - G. Ken Holman - Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:10:21 -0400 (EDT) <=
  - Michael H. Semcheski - Fri, 11 Oct 2002 14:14:23 -0400 (EDT)
  - Steve Salkin - Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:11:48 -0400 (EDT)
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