RE: [xsl] How do I generate an HTML anchor element?

["Ben Robb" <Ben@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You are forgetting what you are actually doing here, which is building a
result tree via your templates.

Longhand:

<xsl:element name="a">
	<xsl:attribute
name="href">SomeURL.jsp?FirstName=FirstValue&amp;SecondValue=<xsl:value-
of select="AAA/BBB"/></xsl:attribute>
	<xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="DDD"/></xsl:text>
</xsl:element>

[i.e. append an element called "a" to the result tree, with an attribute
"href" with the value as specified and the text value of the "DDD" node
on the current tree.]

Shorthand (since that is clearly too much typing]

<a
href="SomeURL.jsp?FirstName=FirstValue&amp;SecondValue={AAA/BBB}"><xsl:v
alue-of select="DDD"/></a>

[i.e. use an attribute value template - denoted by {} ]

If you think of it in the longhand terms (always remembering that you
are building result tree fragments) you won't get as confused...

HTH,

Ben

-----Original Message-----
From: JWALLIS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:JWALLIS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 28 October 2002 13:52
To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [xsl] How do I generate an HTML anchor element?



I have checked the FAQ's for mulberrytech, jennitennison, and Pawson's
without any success. I must not be inputting the search criteria
correctly.

All I'm trying to do is generate an HTML anchor tag. I all the
combinations get syntax errors .

Here is where I originally started:
<table>
<tr>
    <td>
         <a HREF="SomeURL.jsp?FirstName=FirstValue&SecondValue
=<xsl:value-of select="AAA/BBB"/>>        <xsl:value-of select="DDD"/>
         </a>
    </td>
   </tr>
</table>

I have tried just about every weird combination in order get around all
the errors. I'll skip listing all of them for sake of brevity - but here
is a couple attempts: &lt;a HREF="SomeURL.jsp?FirstName=FirstValue&amp;
SecondValue=SecondValue...>someValue&lt;/a>

&#60;a HREF="SomeURL.jsp?FirstName=FirstValue&amp;
SecondValue=SecondValue...>someValue
&#60;/a>

So if someone could just point me to a place in one of the FAQ's that
has info on the anchor tagI would appreciate it.

Thanks in advance, Jim.

<AAA>
      <BBB>1</BBB>
      <CCC>2</CCC>
</AAA>
<DDD>3</DDD>




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