Re: [xsl] XSL question for email link

[Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>]

Jeff Self wrote:
> <xsl:template match="NAME">
>     <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;a href="mailto:";</xsl:text>
>     <xsl:value-of select="child::EMAIL"/>
>     <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&gt;</xsl:text>
>     <xsl:value-of select="FIRST"/>
>     <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
>     <xsl:value-of select="LAST"/>
>     <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&lt;/a&gt;</xsl:text>
> </xsl:template>
>
> [...]
>
> Am I going about this all wrong?

Yes. You almost never, ever need to use disable-output-escaping.

> If so whats the solution?

<xsl:tempate match="NAME">
  <a href="mailto:{EMAIL}";>
    <xsl:value-of select="concat(FIRST,' ',LAST)"/>
  </a>
</xsl:template>

   - Mike
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