Re: XSL and inserting values in HTML

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

Henrik Andersson wrote:
> I now wonder how I can build
> a link that looks like this.
> 
> agenda.asp?action=del;amp&id=2
> 
> where the number 2 is coming from the XML.
> 
> I have tried the following but it don?´t work.
> <a href="agenda.asp?action=del;amp&id= <xsl:value-of select="ID" />
> >click</a>

Right -- you can't put markup inside an attribute value. What you're
after is the <xsl:attribute> element, which lets you construct attribute
"content" (i.e. value) using arbitrary content otherwise available to
the stylesheet. In your case, you'd do something like:

   <a><xsl:attribute
name="href">agenda.asp?action=del;amp&id=<xsl:value-of select="ID"
/></xsl:attribute>click</a>

(If you're using the MSXML processor, Sept. '00 release, be careful not
to allow any newlines into the attribute value when you do this. There's
a known bug which will probably be taken care of in the next release.)

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