Re: <xsl:when> Problems (with IE5)

["Nikita Ogievetsky" <nogievet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oliver,
what you are writing should not work in any parser:
select is an attribute with a single value.
This means that both <option selected="true"/> and <option
selected="false"/> will make option selected.
Parsers conformant with the latest WD will change <option
selected="selected"/> into <option selected/>
One way to solve your problem is the following:

          <select>
            <option value="VALUE1">
                <xsl:choose>
                  <xsl:when test=".='VALUE1'"><xsl:attribute
name="selected">selected</xsl:attribute></xsl:when>
                </xsl:choose>
              THE VALUE 1
            </option>
            <option value="VALUE2">
                <xsl:choose>
                  <xsl:when test=".='VALUE2'"><xsl:attribute
name="selected">selected</xsl:attribute></xsl:when>
                </xsl:choose>
              THE VALUE 2
            </option>
           </select>

Nikita Ogievetsky
http://www.cogx.com

----- Original Message -----
From: <oberthier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 5:15 PM
Subject: <xsl:when> Problems (with IE5)


>
> For the creation of a prototype transforming XML into XSL on the
> client, I'm currently trying the following:
>
>   - I'm having an XML document containing an element with a
>     value inside.
>     E.g. <item1>VALUE1</item1>
>
>   - I would like to produce an HTML output containing a
>     selection list with the text of the item1 currently
>     selected by default in the list.
>     E.g. <select>
>            <option value="VALUE1" selected>THE VALUE 1</option>
>            <option value="VALUE2">THE VALUE 2</option>
>          </select>
>
>   - In a template for the element item1, I'm using for this
>     purpose the following XSL fragment:
>          <select>
>            <option value="VALUE1">
>              <xsl:attribute name="selected">
>                <xsl:choose>
>                  <xsl:when test=".='VALUE1'">true</xsl:when>
>                  <xsl:otherwise>false</xsl:otherwise>
>                </xsl:choose>
>              </xsl:attribute>
>              THE VALUE 1
>            </option>
>            <option value="VALUE2">
>              <xsl:attribute name="selected">
>                <xsl:choose>
>                  <xsl:when test=".='VALUE2'">true</xsl:when>
>                  <xsl:otherwise>false</xsl:otherwise>
>                </xsl:choose>
>              </xsl:attribute>
>              THE VALUE 2
>            </option>
>           </select>
>
> The result seems fine under some of the XSL parsers I've used,
> however I don't manage to make the test attribute work as
> expected with IE5, which is the browser in which I'm intending
> to build the prototype mentioned.
>
> Any help on making the test attribute above check the content
> of the current element against a given string in such a simple
> and standard way that I would have the same result with IE5
> and the parsers following the latest recommandation?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Olivier.
>



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