Re: [xsl] String concatenation inside open tag

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jason Solan wrote:
> I'm new to XSL.
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> The problem comes in because I don't know how to parse the parameters.
> I'm in an open "<a" tag so I can't do (unless I'm mistaken) an
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> I'm sorry if this type of question has been answered before, I tried
> searching, but didn't know what to search for to get a hit.

No problem, we all started at the basics. Your best bet is some tutorial 
that guides you through the processing model of XSLT, and explains you 
what nodes are, what attribute nodes are and how XSLT creates them. You 
don't need to do something inside "an open tag", because tags do not 
exist as far as XSLT is concerned.

A solution:

<a href="something" onclick="someFunc('{@column}');" />

where @column refers to the attribute with the name 'column' in the 
current processing context.

Another solution:

<a href="something">
  <xsl:attribute name="onclick">
     <xsl:text>someFunc('</xsl:text>
     <xsl:value-of select="@column" />
     <xsl:text>');</xsl:text>
 </xsl:attribute>
</a>

In the place of "xsl:value-of" you can also do an apply-templates, if 
you need to parse all kinds of "column" nodes or attributes that need to 
be placed as parts of your function's parameters.

There are many more ways to do this. The first approach above is, 
however, by far the simplest and between the {} brackets you can 
reference any element or attribute using any valid XPath. The {} part is 
called an "attribute value template" (google for some more pointers on it).

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma
  http://www.nuntia.nl