Re: [xsl] Using XSL Variables in HTML Attributes

[Joerg Heinicke <joerg dot heinicke at gmx dot de>]

Use so called "Attribute Value Templates":

<option value="{$courseTitle}">
   <xsl:value-of select="$courseNo" />
</option>

Or <xsl:attribute/>:

<option>
   <xsl:attribute name="value">
      <xsl:value-of select="$courseTitle"/>
   </xsl:attribute>
   <xsl:value-of select="$courseNo"/>
</option>

Of course the first one is shorter and mostly easier to read.

Regards,

Joerg



Jesse M. Heines wrote:
> I have some values stored in XSL variables:
>
>    <xsl:variable name="courseNo" select="@crsno" />
>    <xsl:variable name="courseTitle"
> select="//course[@number=$courseNo]/title" />
>
> I can create a dropdown list of course numbers with HTML option tags by
> putting the following code inside an appropriate looping structure:
>
>    <option>
>       <xsl:value-of select="$courseNo" />
>    </option>
>
> I want to use the course titles as the value parameters of the HTML
> option tag, but the following doesn't work:
>
>    <option value="$courseTitle">
>       <xsl:value-of select="$courseNo" />
>    </option>
>
> I have tried various ways to get <xsl:value-of select="$courseTitle" />
> inside the quotes for the option value parameter, but nothing I tried
> works.  I also tried using the XPath string function in a number of ways
> to no avail.
>
> I would appreciate suggestions anyone can make on how to accomplish our
> goal.
>
> Thank you,
> Jesse
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Jesse M. Heines, Ed.D.
>
> Associate Professor
> Dept. of Computer Science
> University of Massachusetts Lowell
> Lowell, MA  01854-2881
>
>
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