HELP: XSL -> HTML <select selected=true>

jedbartlett · October 5th, 2004, 03:51 PM

I'm trying to do an HTML <select> (drop-down box) control from XSL. I get the list of items, but I cannot specify the selected one. Please help!

I have this XML that holds the list of options and the selected option:

<attributes>
    <combobox>
        <name>country</name>
        <label>Country</label>
        <combobox_option>Canada</combobox_option>
        <combobox_option>USA</combobox_option>
        <combobox_option>Great Britain</combobox_option>
        <combobox_selected>Canada</combobox_selected>
    </combobox>
</attributes>

And I have this XSL which displays the drop-down, but how can I modify this XSL so it inserts <select selected="true"> for the item indicated as selected in the XML? Please help -- I'm stuck!

<xsl:stylesheet
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="attributes">
<html>
<body>
<table>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="checkbox"/>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="combobox">
<xsl:apply-templates select="label"/></td>
<select size="1" name="D1">
<xsl:apply-templates select="combobox_option"/>
</select>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="combobox_option">
    <option><xsl:value-of select="."/></option>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Santhi · October 6th, 2004, 12:37 AM

U can insert the values in the combobox-option which is not in the combobox-selected.
Below is the modified code of yours.This code will select the value of the selected option.I have passed value of selected-option as an parameter to the combobox-option template and inserted the values which is not in combobox-selected..

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="attributes">
<html>
<body>
<table>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="combobox"/>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="combobox">
    <xsl:value-of select="label"/>
    <select size="1" name="D1">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="combobox_selected"/>
        <xsl:apply-templates select="combobox_option">
            <xsl:with-param name="selValue" select="combobox_selected"></xsl:with-param>
        </xsl:apply-templates>
    </select>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="combobox_option">
    <xsl:param name="selValue"></xsl:param>
     <xsl:if test="string($selValue) != string(.)">
        <option><xsl:value-of select="."/></option>
     </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="combobox_selected">
    <option selected="true"><xsl:value-of select="."/></option>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Santhi · October 7th, 2004, 02:54 AM

For this XML,to test for Type and print attribute values see the stylesteet code below..
<attributes>
   <attribute>
     <type>email</type>
     <label>email address</label>
     <value>[email protected]</value>
   </attribute>
   <attribute>
     <type>phone</type>
     <label>phone number</label>
     <phonenumber>613 555 1111</phonenumber>
     <phonenumber>613 555 2222</phonenumber>
     <phonenumber>613 555 3333</phonenumber>
   </attribute>
</attributes>

XSL Code snippet:

<xsl:for-each select="attribute">
   <xsl:if test="string(type)='email'">
    <xsl:value-of select="value"></xsl:value-of>
   </xsl:if>
   <xsl:if test="string(type)='phone'">
    <xsl:value-of select="phonenumber"></xsl:value-of>
   </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

jedbartlett · October 7th, 2004, 09:02 AM

Excellent -- thank you Santhi! (This is an answer to a question I asked him elsewhere.)

That got me on the right track, here's my finished code which has some modifications to yours:

The XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="phone2.xsl"?>

<attributes>
   <attribute>
     <type>email</type>
     <label>email address</label>
     <value>[email protected]</value>
   </attribute>
   <attribute>
     <type>phone</type>
     <label>phone number</label>
     <phonenumber>613 555 1111</phonenumber>
     <phonenumber>613 555 2222</phonenumber>
     <phonenumber>613 555 3333</phonenumber>
   </attribute>
</attributes>

The XSL:

<xsl:stylesheet
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="attributes">

<xsl:for-each select="attribute">
    <xsl:if test="string(type)='email'">
    <table>
    <tr>
      <td><b><xsl:value-of select="label"></xsl:value-of></b></td>
      <td><xsl:value-of select="value"></xsl:value-of></td>
    </tr>
    </table>
    </xsl:if>

    <xsl:if test="string(type)='phone'">
    <table>
    <tr>
      <td><b><xsl:value-of select="label"></xsl:value-of></b></td>
          <td><xsl:apply-templates select="phonenumber"/></td>
        </tr>
    </table>
    </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="phonenumber">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/><br/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Santhi · October 7th, 2004, 11:16 PM

Its really good that you have completed..