Re: [xsl] xsl/xml question

["Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Wendy Ang" <wendy@xxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: <XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [xsl] xsl/xml question
> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:17:20 -0800
>
> Dear List,
>
> I have the following XML Data format:
>
> <ProductList>
> 	<Product>
> 		<ProductID>111</ProductID>
> 		<ProductName>abc</ProductName>
> 		...
> 	</Product>
> </ProductList>
>
> and I need to transform it with the corresponding XSL template using the
> transformNode of MicrosoftXMLDOM
>
> the XSL Template goes:
>
> <?xml version='1.0'?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>     <table border="2">
>       <xsl:for-each select="/ProductList/Product">
> 	      <tr>
> 		<td>
> 		    Product ID: <xsl:value-of select="ProductID"/><br/>
> 		    Product Name: <a href="$ProductID"><xsl:value-of
> select="ProductName"/></a><br/>
> 		    Product Code: <xsl:value-of
> select="ProductCode"/><br/>
> 		    Description: <xsl:value-of
> select="Description"/><br/>
> 		    Picture: <xsl:value-of select="Picture"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="Active"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="bNew"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="Special"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="AllowWriteIn"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="WriteInText"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="ListPrice"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="SellingPrice"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="PricePerUnit"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="MemberPrice"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="ActualCost"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="VolumePricing"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="VolumeQuantity"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="VolumePrice"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="VolumeEvenQuantity"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of
> select="ApplyQuantitiesOverVolume"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="SupplierID"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="ExternalURL"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="ExtraInfoOffer"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="ExtraInfoLocation"/><br/>
> 		    <xsl:value-of select="Status"/><br/></td>
> 	      </tr>
>       </xsl:for-each>
>     </table>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
>
>
> now, if you can see this part:
>
>     Product Name: <a href="$ProductID"><xsl:value-of
> select="ProductName"/></a><br/>
> 		    Product Code: <xsl:value-of
> select="ProductCode"/><br/>
>
> I'm trying to get the value of ProductID and assign it to the "href"
> attribute of the element <a>... anyone knows how to solve this problem?
> Thanks in advance :)
Firstly aviod using the antiquated working draft transformation language 
indicated by:
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";
change this to:
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
if you are using version 3 parser or better and set the selectionLanguage to 
"XPath". See help docs for examples.
Secondly what you need is called an Attribute Value Template. Change:
<a href="$ProductID">
to
<a href="{$ProductID}">
anything in {} will be evaluated as an XPath expression.

Joe

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