RE: [xsl] How to assign node value to html attribute

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

FAQ: use attribute value templates

<td bgcolor="{TBD1/TBDC1}">foo</td>

You can't use disable-output-escaping here, but that's probably just as
well.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sunny Bro
> Sent: 26 June 2002 16:13
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> Subject: [xsl] How to assign node value to html attribute
> 
> 
> Hello,
> I'm working on a small project for my university and I'd like 
> to use xml and 
> xsl in my servlets so that the presentation logic can be 
> seperated from the 
> business logic.  When I tried to assign the value of a node 
> to an html 
> attribute (bgcolor) using xsl, I ran into problems.
> 
> <td bgcolor= ' <xsl:value-of select="TBD1/TBDC1" 
> disable-output-escaping="yes" '> foo </td>
> 
> The parser didn't like this and gave the following 
> SAXParseException: The value of attribute "bgcolor" must not 
> contain the '<' character.
> 
> As this isn't allowed is there a workaround so that i could 
> still make use 
> of the color values in the dom or do i have to adulterate the dom by 
> embedding the required html at the servlet level.
> 
> Thanks a ton,
> Sunny.
> 
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