Re: [xsl] Looking for a concise way of specifying an conditional attribute in output

[John McGowan <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Andrew, Michael and Ken!

I use value-of so much I forgot about it's impact on "non-strings".
This information also helped me with a very similar issue I just ran
into today where I was writing a function that was returning a boolean
true or false, but it was always true... because value-of was turning
it into a string.

/John

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>> <option value="{@value}>
>>  <xsl:value-of select="isSelected(@value,something)">
>>  other stuff
>> </option>
>>
>> with a reusable function like this
>>
>> <xsl:function name="isSelected">
>>  <xsl:param name="v1"/>
>>  <xsl:param name="v2"/>
>>  <xsl:if test="$v1 eq $v2"><xsl:attribute name="selected"
>> select="'selected'" /></xsl:if>
>> </xsl:function>
>>
>
> As has been said you need xsl:sequence or xsl:copy-of to get the whole
> node not just the value of the node, but you could also make that
> function a little more generic to create any attribute:
>
> <xsl:function name="f:createAtt">
>  <xsl:param name="name"/>
>  <xsl:param name="value"/>
>  <xsl:attribute name="{$name}" select="$value"/>
> </xsl:function>
>
> and then call it passing the the name value pair for the attribute,
> and put the condition in a predicate:
>
> <foo>
>  <xsl:sequence select="f:createAtt('foo', 'bar')[current()/@value =
> $something]"/>
>
>
> cheers
> andrew
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew Welch
> http://andrewjwelch.com
>
>



--
/John