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I have an application whose data resides in an Access database. The application bascially loops through a number of categories, and for each item ("news_post") in each category, loops through and transforms the data into HTML. What I am trying to do is capture the value of the "category" variable and pass it outside the current scope so I can link to another page with more content relevant to the specific category. I don't know how to either declare the variable in a scope that will achieve my purpose, or pass the value through. http://iisstage.pacific.edu/homepage/events/pacific-event-calendar.asp Above is a link to the output and here's the code below. Any help would be appreciated. <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:ms="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"> <xsl:output method="html"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <div> <xsl:apply-templates/> </div> </xsl:template> <xsl:template match="news_posts"> <!-- check for empty node - no posts found - give error message if not --> <xsl:if test="not(node())"> <tr> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><td width="100%" valign="top"></xsl:text> No events are currently scheduled. <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"></td></xsl:text> </tr> </xsl:if> <!-- display posts if found --> <xsl:variable name="pagename"> <xsl:value-of select="../page_info/@pagename"/> </xsl:variable> <xsl:variable name="single"> <xsl:value-of select="../page_info/@singlepost"/> </xsl:variable> <!-- output only first 2 posts --> <xsl:choose> <xsl:if test="count(news_post) < 3"> <!-- end test count value --> <xsl:text>News post count 1A: </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="count(news_post)"></xsl:value-of><br /> <xsl:for-each select="news_post"> <xsl:sort order="ascending" select="."/> <xsl:attribute name="id"><xsl:text>zNews</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="position()"/></xsl:attribute> <tr> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><td valign="top" width="33%" class='zcontent'></xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="short" disable-output-escaping="yes" /> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"></td></xsl:text> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><td valign="top" width="66%" class='zcontent'></xsl:text> <div class="zheadline"> <a class="zheadtitleUnderline"> <xsl:attribute name="href"> <xsl:text>mainevents.asp?postid=</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="@postid" /> </xsl:attribute> <xsl:value-of select="title" disable-output-escaping="yes" /> </a> </div> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"></td></xsl:text> <!-- check value --> <xsl:value-of select="news_post" disable-output-escaping="yes"/> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"></tr></xsl:text> <!-- print test count value --> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"></td></xsl:text> </tr> <!--</xsl:if>--> </xsl:for-each> <!-- end test for number of posts --> </xsl:if> <xsl:if test="$nPosts > 1"> <tr> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><td colspan=2 valign ="top" width="100%" class='zcontent'></xsl:text> <div align="right"> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><a href='pacific-</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="category" disable-output-escaping="yes" /> <!--<xsl:value-of select="$nCategory" disable-output-escaping="yes" />--> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">-events.asp'>more >></a></xsl:text> </div> <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"></td></xsl:text> </tr> </xsl:if> Brian Phelps Web Manager Marketing and University Relations (209) 946-3273 PST For current web site updates, stay informed: http://www.pacific.edu/developers/ AIM/Yahoo IM: btphelps icq: 221376 University of the Pacific Stockton, CA www.pacific.edu
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