RE: generating HTML Anchor link via XSL

[Laurie Mann <laurie.mann@xxxxxxxxx>]

From: Eric Taylor [mailto:Eric.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

>I'm unable to generate a simple HTML anchor link to via my XSL.  (I'm
rather
>a novice, and I'm assuming I'm missing something rather obvious.)  Here's
>what I've done.
> In my XML file, I have this:
> 
>    <link href="\path\filename.xml">link text</link>
> 
> In my XSL, I have:
> 
>   <xsl:template match="link">
>     <A href="{@href}"><xsl:value-of /></A>
>   </xsl:template>
> 
> If I have make the XSL display the value of @href (i.e, <xsl:value-of
> select="@href"/>) it displays the path correctly (and I've checked that
> the file exists), but when I click on the link, I get "The page cannot be
> displayed" message.

You have to remember that you're linking to an HTML or SHTML page - NOT
to an .XML page.  So if you change:

   <link href="\path\filename.xml">link text</link>

to

    <link href="\path\filename.html">link text</link>

it should work fine.



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