Re: Escaping within an xsl:attribute element

["Brett McLaughlin" <bmclaugh@xxxxxxxx>]

>
> > It all has to be within the xsl:attribute
>
> But your example stylesheet you posted was did _not_ have the code
> inside xsl:attribute.

Sorry, David, you've been helpful and I am confusing the matter because I
haven't had my morning coffee... it should have all been inside the
xsl:element, which makes more sense to you (I hope).  Once I replaced nowrap
with nowrap="nowrap",   with  , and pulled out the xsl-text
element (which I actually had already done), it transformed fine, with the
desired results.

>
> You can not have element markup inside attribute values in XML (or HTML)
> so there is no way to get elements into attribute values, irrespective
> of xsl syntax.

Right, again, that was my dumb typo :-(

>
> > <tr bgcolor="<something-defined-in-my-xml>">
>
> to get that you just want
>
> <tr bgcolor="{@color}">

Here's what it ended up looking like:

     <xsl:element name="tr">
      <xsl:attribute name="bgcolor">
       <xsl:value-of
select="/Portal:Page/Portal:Preferences/Portal:trimColor"/>
      </xsl:attribute>
      <td valign="bottom" align="left" nowrap="nowrap">
       <xsl:element name="font">
        <xsl:attribute name="face">
         <xsl:value-of
select="/Portal:Page/Portal:Preferences/Portal:fontFace"/>
        </xsl:attribute>
        <xsl:attribute name="color">
         <xsl:value-of
select="/Portal:Page/Portal:Preferences/Portal:trimFontColor"/>
        </xsl:attribute>
       <xsl:attribute name="size">
        <xsl:text>-1</xsl:text>
       </xsl:attribute>
        <b>
         &#160;&#160;&#160;Welcome,
         <xsl:value-of select="/Portal:Page/Portal:User/Portal:firstName"/>
         <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
         <xsl:value-of select="/Portal:Page/Portal:User/Portal:lastName"/>
         &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;
        </b>
       </xsl:element>
      </td>
      <td align="right" colspan="2">
       <nobr/>
       &#160;
      </td>
     </xsl:element>

>
> or any other expression instea dof @color to extract the data from your
> input.

I wouldn't think I could do this because the value of color is defined in an
XML element, not an attribute, so I have to use an xsl:value-of to pull it
out of the document.  Of course, there may be a better way to do this and I
am more than open to it.

Thanks,
Brett


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