Re: [xsl] XSL and HTML select

[Jeni Tennison <mail at jenitennison dot com>]

Hi Samuli,

> How can I relay the selected menu option to the XSL variable
> SelectedId ?

You need to pass the value of the selected menu option as a parameter
to the stylesheet.  There's no magical link back to the stylesheet
that generated some HTML from the HTML that the stylesheet's
generated.

You need to define the parameter as a stylesheet parameter within the
XML.  So at the top level use:

<xsl:param name="SelectedId" />

How you pass the parameter into the stylesheet depends on how and
where you're processing the stylesheet.  I guess you're using MSXML or
Cocoon -  both have documentation about how to use parameters with
them.  Basically with Cocoon you can construct a URL to pass the
parameters with something like:

  mydata.xml?SelectedId=4

With MSXML, you need to script it.  Have a look at the MSXML SDK and
search for the setParameter method.

I hope that helps,

Jeni

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