Re: How to add a "less than" or "greater than" sign?

["John E. Simpson" <simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:44 PM 4/12/2000 -0500, Moazzam Ahmed wrote:
> Im trying to create this as the output
>
> <ATAG> myvalue </ATAG>
>
> ATAG is an attribute value stored in TYPE
>
> why wont this work
>
> < <xsl:value-of select="@Type"> > myvalue </ <xsl:value-of select="@Type"> >

The reason it doesn't work is that the rules of XML itself forbid this kind 
of thing -- nothing really to do with XSLT. Since your stylesheet is itself 
an XML document, you can't double-up on the < and > characters within the 
stylesheet's tags any more than you can in any other XML document.

If, as I suspect, you're trying to create an element whose name depends on 
the value of an attribute, you might want to take a look at using 
xsl:element. This works something like the following (don't have an XSLT 
processor handy to test it):
     <xsl:element name="@Type"> myvalue </xsl:element>
which places into the result tree an element named ATAG (*if* the value of 
the Type attribute is "ATAG"), which contains the string " myvalue ".

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