Re: [xsl] Checkboxes in XSLT

Subject: Re: [xsl] Checkboxes in XSLT
From: Jen Jiang <zhenjiang14221@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 14:36:05 -0800 (PST)
I want the checkboxes to be an array so I include []
into the name. Is there other solutions that I can use
to form an array?



--- "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jen Jiang wrote:
> > I have checkboxes in my xslt file like this:
> > 
> > <xsl:element name="input">
> > <xsl:attribute
> name="type">checkbox</xsl:attribute>
> > <xsl:attribute name="name">
> > <xsl:value-of
> > select="$questionid"/>[1]</xsl:attribute>		
> > <xsl:attribute name="value">1</xsl:attribute>
> > <xsl:value-of select="QUERESPONE"/>
> > </xsl:element>
> > ....
> > There are 5 more. The values of the checked boxes
> got
> > passed but for unchecked boxes I got "undefined
> > offset" when trying to get the values in PHP.
> > 
> > Is my code wrong?
> 
> Well, at a first glance it is unnecessary verbose.
> It could
> be written in a more compact form:
>   <input tyep="checkbox" name="{$questionid}[1]"
>     value="1">QUERESPONE</input>
> 
> Assuming the variable $questionid holds the value
> "foo" this
> would evaluate to
>   <input tyep="checkbox" name="foo[1]"
> value="1">QUERESPONE</input>
> which is unusual and probably illegal HTML (an input
> element should
> be empty). At least, the widget name should not
> contain brackets,
> which I suspect causes your problems with PHP later.
> 
> Solution: think *hard* how the HTML should look
> like, *then* write
> a style sheet which produces the HTML (check
> carefully whether it
> does), and only after this step go on with further
> processing of
> the form values.
> 
> 
> J.Pietschmann
> 
> 



		
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