Re: xsl:attribute with html option tags

["Dan Machak" <machak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 4,  1:13pm, Ken Schneider wrote:
> Subject: xsl:attribute with html option tags
>
> Hi,
>
>
> 	<select size="1" name="security_level">
> 		<option> </option>
> 		<option>1</option>
> 		<option>2</option>
> 		<option>3</option>
> 		<option>4</option>
> 		<option>5</option>
> 	</select>
>
> In order to use the "xsl:attribute" like I used with text fields, I'd
> need to know ahead of time which <option> tag to place it in...
> correct?  But since I'm reading the number in from the xml, this implies
> I'd have to dynamically generate the <options> using javascript?  Or is
> there an easier way?
>

I'm working on pretty much the same problem, using user customized data to
generate a form. The approach I'm taking has the form data and user preferences
in separate xml files. Here is an example that has the form data and user data
in the same file for conciseness:

option.xsl:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0";>
<xsl:param name="user">jdoe</xsl:param>
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:call-template name="make-select"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template name="make-select">
  <select size="1" name="security_level">
  	<xsl:for-each select="//security_options/option">
	  <option>
	    <xsl:if test="./text()=//user[@user_id=$user]/@security_level">
		  <xsl:attribute name="selected"/>
		</xsl:if>
		<xsl:value-of select="./text()"/>
	  </option>
	</xsl:for-each>
  </select>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


data.xsl:
<data>
  <users>
    <user user_id="jdoe" security_level="3"/>
  </users>
  <formdata>
    <security_options>
      <option> </option>
      <option>1</option>
      <option>2</option>
      <option>3</option>
      <option>4</option>
      <option>5</option>
    </security_options>
  </formdata>
</data>

Output: (using XT19990813)
<select size="1" name="security_level">
<option> </option>
<option>1</option>
<option>2</option>
<option selected="">3</option>
<option>4</option>
<option>5</option>
</select>


Is this the kind of thing you were thinking of?

Dan

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