I am pretty new to this so please bear with me. I have an application that is retrieving xml from another application. I am creating web pages from that xml. What I am trying to do is have the default selected item from a combo box show up in the web page as selected. I have accomplished this but when I select it the return value is incorrect and it selects the wrong option on the original application.

Here is the xml that I get

<Root>
<Row index="0">Administrator</Row>
<Row index="1">John</Row>
<Row index="1">Ray</Row>
<Row index="1" selected="true">Ron</Row>
</Root>

I take the xml and place it in strResultsUser and pass it off to be processed.
strResultsUser = "<widjet><name>Logon</name><type>User</type><values>"+ strResultsUser +"</values></widjet>";

I am processing it through this xsl

 <xsl:if test="name='Logon'">
   <xsl:if test="type='User'">
   <logonid>
  <xsl:for-each select="values/Root/Row[@selected='true']">
    <name selected="true"><xsl:value-of select="."/></name>
  </xsl:for-each>
  <xsl:for-each select="values/Root/Row">
    <name selected="false"><xsl:value-of select="."/></name>
  </xsl:for-each>
  </logonid>
 </xsl:if>
 </xsl:if>

This is my output after I transform it

<logonid xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format">
<name selected="true">Ron</name>
<name selected="false">Administrator</name>
<name selected="false">John</name>
<name selected="false">Ray</name>
<name selected="false">Ron</name>
</logonid>

And I present it through this code

<tr><td>User:
 <select size="1" name="cboUser">
<xsl:for-each select="logicresponse/username/logonid/name[@selected= 'true']">
<option selected="true"><xsl:value-of select="."/></option>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:for-each select="logicresponse/username/logonid/name[@selected= 'false']">
<option value="{position()-1}"><xsl:value-of select="."/></option>
</xsl:for-each>
</select>
</td></tr>


My issue is when I select the "default selected" item in the combo box
the value it sends back is off. Is there a better way to appraoch this or am I missing something here. I can see that I need to make position 3 the selected but I cannot figure out how.

Do you need to display the Ron choice twice?
<xsl:for-each select="values/Root/Row[@selected='true']">
    <name selected="true"><xsl:value-of select="."/></name>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:for-each select="values/Root/Row">
    <name selected="false"><xsl:value-of select="."/></name>
</xsl:for-each>

I suggest changing that to:
<xsl:for-each select="values/Root/Row">
    <name><xsl:copy-of select="@selected/><xsl:value-of select="."/></name>
</xsl:for-each>

just floating an idea. would have to change output code:
<xsl:for-each select="logicresponse/username/logonid/name">
<option value="{position()-1}">
<xsl:if test="@selected='true'><xsl:copy-of select="@selected"/></xsl:if><xsl:value-of select="."/></option>
</xsl:for-each>

nope, I do not need the name ron twice. I followed your suggestion and it worked nicely. One question

This was my output

<option value="0">Administrator</option>
<option value="1">John</option>
<option value="2">Ray</option>
<option value="3" selected="true">Ron</option>


This was the code you suggested

<option value="{position()-1}">
<xsl:if test="@selected='true'><xsl:copy-of select="@selected"/></xsl:if><xsl:value-of select="."/></option>

My question is by testing for that attribute does xsl add that as an attribute when true to the option element? It seems to do that, I just want to see if what I am thinking is actually the case.

Thanks
Ron

yes, that's exactly what it does.

And if you're trying to output HTML then the selected attribute should have a value of "selected", not true.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)