RE: [xsl] wierd textarea behaviour with xsl

[Declan Brennan <dbrennan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks but that didn't fix it fully.

The problem lies in the fact that the <textarea> tag is not being closed 
properly if there is no value in the xsl select (if there is, it works ok
now).

So if there is - the html source looks like :
<textarea rows="5" cols="40" name="comment" class="textbox">Dum de
dum.</textarea>

If there isn't, the html source looks like, (note the lack of closing tag) :
<textarea rows="5" cols="40" name="comment" class="textbox"/>

So to try and force a value into the box I used an xsl choose. 

<textarea rows="5" cols="40" name="comment" class="textbox">
	<xsl:choose>
		<xsl:when test="(./currentStatus/comment)">
			<xsl:choose>
				<xsl:when test="./currentStatus/comment !=
''">
					<xsl:value-of
select="./currentStatus/comment"/>
				</xsl:when>
				<xsl:otherwise>
					No comments.
				</xsl:otherwise>
			</xsl:choose>
		</xsl:when>
	</xsl:choose>
</textarea>

This has fixed it. Man, what a verbose way of having to populate a comment
box.

If I remove the text between the otherwise tags, it goes back to not closing
the
<textarea> object properly. Anyone know a better way of doing this, as I'd
prefer
to keep the textarea empty if there is no value in the xml?

Thanks,

Declan

> This is wierd. My xsl code is simple :
> 
> <TR>
>   <TD class="h4">Reason</TD>
>   <TD>
>     <textarea rows="5" cols="40"  name="comment" class="textbox"
>         value="{./currentStatus/comment}" />
>   </TD>
> </TR>
[snip]
> But what is displayed is a textbox that contains
> </TD></TR></table><br/><TABLE and all the rest of the html for
> the page till the </html> tag.
> 
> What the heck is going wrong? I can't see it. Please help.

Outputing something that is not HTML; the textarea element of HTML does not
have a value attribute, instead use

  <textarea rows="5" cols="40"  name="comment" class="textbox">
    <xsl:value-of select="./currentStatus/comment" />
  </textarea>



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