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Re: Getting and using an xml attribute

Subject: Re: Getting and using an xml attribute
From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 15:48:09 +0000
Re:  Getting and using an xml attribute
On 30/11/2007, Aaron Johnson <artpunx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is it possible to select an attribute, take its value and re-use it elsewhere?

Only if you store it in a variable that's in scope where you want to
use it elsewhere, but...


> I need to create a "manual" url, but because the ID value changes, I
> need a way to "find out" what the ID value is first. I thought by
> finding the element that contains name='Email, like this...
>
> //inactiveTab[@name='Email']
>
> ...I could then take the value of any ID attribute and then append it
> to the end of my manual URL(...as a variable?). I would then always
> (hopefully!) know that the manual url would look like the
> automatically generated URL.
>
> So, my question is, how do I capture the value of the ID attribute of
> any element containing name="Home" and make it into something
> "re-usable"?

it sounds like you just need a key:

<xsl:key name="inactiveTabByName" match="inactiveTab" use="@name"/>

then to get the @ID for a given name (say 'Email') you would use:

select="key('inactiveTabByName', 'Email')/@ID"

cheers
-- 
Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com
Kernow: http://kernowforsaxon.sf.net/

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