Re: Setting the value of the HREF attribute (Again)

[Francois Belanger <francois@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nigel Byrnes wrote on 08/02/99 13h25:

>Hello again XSL-ers
>
>Thanks for the the advice I received earlier in the day. On the same
>subject however, I have another query. As illustrated below, I am
>looking to set up an email link. The email address exists in the XML
>document, but I need to prepend the string "mailto:"; onto it. I can't
>know how to do this in one step. does anyone have any ideas?

This should do it:

<xsl:template match="contactEmail">
  <xsl:text>Email: </xsl:text>
  <xsl:element name="A">
    <xsl:attribute name="HREF">mailto:<xsl:value-of 
select="text()"/></xsl:attribute>
    <xsl:apply-templates/>
  </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>


Francois Belanger
Sitepak, Bringing Internet Business into Focus
http://www.sitepak.com



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