Re: [xsl] RE: How to pass VBScript variable in XSL code

[Steve <subsume@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, I didn't want to nitpick the technology you were using, but the
things you're trying to achieve are about 10,000 times more compliant
and simple while using JavaScript, especially enhanced with a
framework like Prototype.js.

But we've wobbled off topic. =)

-Steve

On Nov 14, 2007 12:14 PM, Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Nistala, Anu wrote:
>
> > I have a dropdown list populated from XML. Now, based on the
> > selection on the dropdown the onclick event is expected to display
> > the description of the function.  The idea is to get the index of the
> > selected list item and display the corresponding description node
> > from the XML. I have tried several ways to pass the value to the xsl
> > tags. I tried Concatenating the string "<xsl:value-of
> > select=""functiontitle/funcdef[" & i & "]/funcdesc"" />". This did
> > not work (obviously... xsl didn't like it).
>
> I wouldn't use VBScript on the client as only IE/Win supports that.
> Consider to use JavaScript, then it is easy and works with Mozilla, IE
> and other browsers:
> <URL:http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/xslt/test2007111404.xml>
> Stylesheet used is
> <URL:http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/xslt/test2007111403Xsl.xml>
>
>
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>
>         Martin Honnen
>         http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/