Re: [xsl] generating mailto

["Michael H. Semcheski" <mhs-list@xxxxxxxxx>]

<td class="contact">
   <a>
       <xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of 
select="contact/email"/></xsl:attribute>
       <xsl:value-of select="contact/email"/>
   </a>
</td>

If you want to list all your contacts, you can do something like:
<xsl:apply-templates select="contact"/>

<xsl:template match="contact">
<tr>
   <td><xsl:value-of select="name"/><td>
   <td class="contact">
       <a>
           <xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of 
select="email"/></xsl:attribute>
           <xsl:value-of select="email"/>
       </a>
   </td>
</tr>
</xsl:template>

(this of course assumes you also have a node called "name" in your 
contacts.)
There are probably some ways to shorten this, but thats the gist of it.

It took me a while to catch on to it, but when you get it, it becomes 
very intuitive, so stick with the xsl.
Mike  

Steve Salkin wrote:

> Hi-
>
> I'm just getting my feet wet in XSL and it's pretty interesting. I think
> I am missing something though, because I find myself needing xsl:text
> more than I think I really ought to. 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>
>
> the only thing I can get to work well is something like
>
> <td class="contact">
>  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
>    &lt;a href= &quot;mailto:
>  </xsl:text>
>  <xsl:value-of select="contact/email"/>
>  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
>     &quot;>
>  </xsl:text>
>  <xsl:value-of select="contact/email"/>
>  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
>    &lt;/a>
>  </xsl:text>
> </td>
>
> because the need for quotes after the "href=" confuses everything  (Then
> I have to hide the '<' because it gets upset when it sees <a href= with
> no quotes following). I'm sure that there's a more elegant solution than
> this relatively ugly one. I did try using an <xsl:variable> but I just
> get $email in the output. Any takers?
>
> S-
>
>
>
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