RE: [xsl] <a class="..." href="..." problem

Subject: RE: [xsl] <a class="..." href="..." problem
From: Vincent Blondel <vincent@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:10:39 +0100
Dave,

great ... it works 

Thanks a lot for the info.

Vincent
:)

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 13:10 +0000, Dave Johnson wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
> 
> You can try one of two things.
> 
> The traditional way of doing this is to use the <xsl:attribute/> element
> like this:
> <a class="navigation" id="selected">
> 	<xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="url"
> /></xsl:attribute>
> 	<xsl:value-of select="title" />
> </a>
> 
> Alternatively you can try encoding your output xml/xhtml tags.
> &lt;a class="navigation" id="selected" href="<xsl:value-of select="url" />"
> &gt;
> 	<xsl:value-of select="title" />
> &lt;/a&gt;
> 
> The second method can is a good way to go if you are using the XSLT on the
> client in Mozilla based browsers as it tends to be much faster.
> 
> MSDN has a very good XSLT 1.0 reference here:
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/xmlsdk/html
> /a138c224-550c-458a-b510-4bd23ebe56c1.asp
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave
> 
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vincent Blondel [mailto:vincent@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: January 29, 2006 11:00 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] <a class="..." href="..." problem
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I just began with xsl two days ago, so sorry for this maybe stupid
> question.
> 
> I am trying to write some xsl stylesheets but I encounter some problems
> with next xsl document. 
> 
> As you can see it in the "chapter" template section, I try to enumerate
> all menu entries through two XPath nodes. <title> corresponds to the
> label displayed on the web page and <url> corresponding to the link
> pointing to the web page. 
> 
> This is working fine except the href variable. It seems I cannot insert
> some <xsl:... /> tag into some double quotes being part of another tag.
> 
> How can I solve this problem ?
> 
> Regards 
> Vincent
> 
> --------------
>  index.xsl
> --------------
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet
>     version="2.0"
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> 
> <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="iso-8859-1"
> 
> doctype-system="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xhtml1-20000126/DTD/xhtml1-str
> ict.dtd"
>             doctype-public="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN">
> </xsl:output>
> 
> <xsl:template match="document">
>     <html>
>     <head>
>         <title>
>             <xsl:value-of select="title"/>
>         </title>
>     </head>
>     <body>
>         <div class="navigation">
>             <xsl:apply-templates select="chapter"/>
>         </div>
>     </body>
>     </html>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="chapter">
>     <a class="navigation" href="<xsl:value-of select="url"/>"
> id="selected">
>         <xsl:value-of select="title"/>
>     </a>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>

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