Re: [xsl] generating mailto

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2002-10-11 01:42 -0400, Steve Salkin wrote:
> I'm just getting my feet wet in XSL and it's pretty interesting. I think
> I am missing something though,

Yes, you are treating XSLT as an "angle-bracket processor" when, in fact, 
it is a "node tree processor".

You need to represent the node tree structure of your result in the node 
tree structure of your stylesheet ... see 
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200210/msg00411.html for a 
recent post where I try to emphasize this point.

Don't try to construct the resulting syntax, because your objective as a 
stylesheet writer isn't to build syntax, but to build structure.

> ...
> For example, if I have XML
> <contact>
>   <email>xxx@xxxxxxxxx</email>
> </contact>
>
> and I want to generate a mailto URI like this:
> <a href="xxx@xxxxxxxxx>xxx@xxxxxxxxx</a>

In the example below I am using an attribute value template in the href 
attribute to evaluate the value of the <email> child of the <contact> 
element, and the <xsl:value-of> instruction to get at the same content for 
the canvas.

I hope this helps.

............... Ken

T:\ftemp>type salkin.xml
<contact>
  <email>xxx@xxxxxxxxx</email>
</contact>

T:\ftemp>type salkin.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="contact">
  <td class="contact">
    <a href="mailto:{email}";>
       <xsl:value-of select="email"/>
    </a>
  </td>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\ftemp>xt salkin.xml salkin.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<td class="contact"><a href="mailto:xxx@xxxxxxxxx";>xxx@xxxxxxxxx</a></td>
T:\ftemp>


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