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RE: Query re variable use
- To: "'xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com>
- Subject: RE: Query re variable use
- From: Linda van den Brink <lvdbrink at baan dot nl>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:29:23 +0200
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
> My current (non-working) attempt is:
>
> <xsl:template match = "person">
> <xsl:variable name="myindex" select = "@index"/>
> <a href="namelist.xml?key='$myindex'"><xsl:value-of select
> ="."/></a>
> </xsl:template>
>
> Which gives me the literal '$myindex' instead of the value of
> the variable $myindex
> in the output. I dimly grasp I need an <xsl:value-of select =
> $myindex/> somewhere,
> but it isn't allowed inside the expression I'm trying to build
> in its current form.
You can use curly braces instead of xsl:value-of in cases like these:
<a href="namelist.xml?key='{$myindex}'"><xsl:value-of select="."/></a>
Linda
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