RE: How to embed xsl:value-of into html tag

["Evan Lenz" <elenz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Use an attribute value template (AVT) as follows:

<input type="text" name="productName" value="{.}" size="25" maxlength="30"/>

Putting curly braces around an XPath expression in the context of a literal
result element's attribute value (and a few select XSLT instructions'
attribute values) is exactly the same as doing the following (which would be
another solution to your problem):

<input type="text" name="productName" size="25" maxlength="30">
  <xsl:attribute name="value">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </xsl:attribute>
</input>

I think you will agree that, since you don't need anything like conditional
processing to get the desired value of your attribute, the former solution
is a much nicer one.

Hope this helps.

Evan Lenz
elenz@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.xyzfind.com
XYZFind Corp. "Building Better Search"


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joan Shu
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 3:22 PM
To: 'XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: How to embed xsl:value-of into html tag


Hi,

I can't get this working. value of the input field will be <xsl:value-of
select=".">
instead of the real name -- XML Bible. I guess XSLT will not transform any
XSL statement inside
a html tag.

Any workaround will be really appreciated. Thanks,
Joan

=============xsl code=================
<xsl:template match="productName">

	<input type="text" name="productName" value='&lt;xsl:value-of
select="."/&gt;' size="25" maxlength="30" />

</xsl:template>

=============xml code================
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<productName> XML Bible </productName>

=============output==============
<input type="text" name="productName" value='<xsl:value-of select="."/>'
size ="25" maxlength="30" />

==========what I want==============
<input type="text" name="productName" value='XML Bible'  size ="25"
maxlength="30" />


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