Trying to output a tag within a tag

jaucourt · December 31st, 2004, 05:57 AM

I'm using XSL to transform XML to HTML. Mostly it is working ok, however I get a parse error when trying to output the <xsl:value-of> tag within a html <a> tag:

Code:

<td class="StarText" width="10%">
    <a title="Click here for more details" target="_top" href=<xsl:value-of select="//fulldetails"/>>
    <img border="0" valign="top" src="http://www2.vebra.com/solex/19998/0099a01010009910039.jpg" /></a>
</td>

I've tried putting the <a> tag and closing tag within

Code:

<![CDATA[]]>

sections, and that didn't work

mhkay · December 31st, 2004, 08:08 AM

A stylesheet has to be valid XML, and XML doesn't allow elements to appear within attributes.

Look up "attribute value templates":

<a href="{$x}">

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

Ajay Swamy · January 7th, 2005, 01:09 PM

This is what you have to do:

<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:value-of select="select="//fulldetails"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="title">
Click here for more details
</xsl:attribute>
... and so on for other atributes and their values.
</a>

Hope this helps.

Ajay S
[email protected]
NYC

jaucourt · January 12th, 2005, 11:57 AM

That works fantastically well, thank you very much!