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Re: Creating an input form, XML -> XSLT -> HTML


I was able to use xslt like this:

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"> First Name: <![CDATA[<]]>input
type="text" name="</xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="generate-id()"/><xsl:text>" value="</xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select="GivenName"/><xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">"> </xsl:text>

To get this:

First Name: <input type="text" name="N40003D" value="Jane">

This is valid input in an HTML form. These names occur at multiple levels, so
it takes a different xpath expression to reach them. Ultimately I have to be
able to associate the field name, "N40003D" to the xpath that would find the
element in a DOM object, so that I may update it. If I can somehow figure out
how to use xslt to get a string representing the xpath to the element, I
could use JSP to build a HashTable of the name-value pairs. How can I get a
string representing the path in xslt?


Robert Koberg wrote:

> what is your xml and what xslt have you tried? perhaps you are having
> problems with attribute-value-templates:
>
> <INPUT NAME={@name} ..etc..>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron King" <roncking@home.com>
> To: <XSL-List@lists.mulberrytech.com>
> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 12:01 PM
> Subject: [xsl] Creating an input form, XML -> XSLT -> HTML
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to take XML and generate an input form using XSLT. In straight
> > HTML, I would code this:
> >
> > <INPUT TYPE = "TEXT" NAME="FIRSTNAME" VALUE="JAMES" >
> >
> > My XML documents may have multiple occurances of names, so I can't
> > hardcode "FIRSTNAME".  I need to dynmically generate the NAME using
> > generate-id(), right? I also would like to be able to generate a string
> > that is the xpath representation of the XML data.
> >
> > My overall goal is to be able to identify the field name, and the xpath
> > to the field so that I can process the results of the HTTP Request when
> > it comes back from the browser using JXPATH, a tool for accessing java
> > beans with the xpath syntax , understand.
> >
> > I've tried to code this, but I can't figure out how to do it! Please
> > help me.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ron
> >
> >
> >
> >
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>
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