Re: Using entity ids to generate attributes for HREF in html output.

[Toby Speight <Toby.Speight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter> Peter Bennett <URL:mailto:peter.bennett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

0> In article
0> <F159D3979D8AD21184AD0000E8DFA52207E971@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
0> Peter wrote:

Peter> (make element
Peter>           gi: "A"
Peter>   attributes: '(("HREF" "astaticlink"))))
Peter>   (process-first-descendant 'activitytitle))
Peter>
Peter> (make element
Peter>           gi: "A"
Peter>   attributes: '(("HREF" (attribute-string "id"))
Peter>   (process-first-descendant 'activitytitle))
Peter>
Peter> But then I get the following error message:
Peter> invalid value for "attributes" characteristic.

You don't want (attribute-string "id") to be the actual value; you
want to evaluate it.  But you've quoted the whole form using "'", which
won't do what you want.

Use something like

  attributes: (list (list "HREF" (attribute-string "id"))

to construct the attributes list.

-- 


 DSSSList info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist