Re: [xsl] taking a literal or a attribute value

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Florian,

This hardly counts as "nice"...

<element attribute="{concat(@width, substring('100%',1,boolean(@width)*4))}">

but it should work (untested though).

If you wanted to parameterize '100%' you could use

concat(@width, substring($value,1,boolean(@width)*string-length($value)))

If you do this, write a comment to explain it for the next poor soul who 
has to reach into your code. :->

Me, I'm going off line for a few days ... and there may be more elegant 
solutions.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 11:01 AM 5/26/2003, you wrote:
> i would like to set a xml element attribute to the value of
> an currently processed element or a literal.
>
> i could do it for sure like
>
> <xsl:choose>
>         <xsl:when test="@width"><xsl:value-of select="@width" 
> /></xsl:when>     <xsl:othrwise>100%</xsl:othrwise>
> </xsl:choose>
>
> i just wonder if there are any nice xpaths ways to make
> this more simple..

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