Write XML element into textbox with XSLT

tcstom · December 9th, 2005, 08:14 AM

Hi, I'm using XSLT to format an XML document but I want to write some of the XML into HTML form controls. For example, I'd like a textbox to contain the data from one of the XML elements. It won't let me do this...

Code:

<input type="text" id="whatever" value="<xsl:value-of select="RESPONSE"/>" />

...so is there a correct way to achieve this?

Thanks.

brenchley · December 9th, 2005, 08:51 AM

i think this should do it

<input type="text" id="whatever">
  <xsl:attribute name="value">
    <xsl:value-of select="RESPONSE"/>
  </xsl:attribute>
</input>

joefawcett · December 9th, 2005, 09:53 AM

Or use the shorter "attribute value template" method:

Code:

<input type="text" id="whatever" value="{RESPONSE}" />

Not all attributes accept the curly brace substitution though, it won't work for dynamic includes in xsl:include or the match on an xsl:template for example.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

trimba · July 5th, 2006, 02:47 AM

Ok after I show it to the textbox, and the user modify it. Is it possible to write it back to the xml file ?

Any idea on how to do it.

Any help will be very much appreciated.
Thank you

mhkay · July 5th, 2006, 04:08 AM

I'm not sure where "the XML file" is. On the server?

Take a look at XForms for this: but htere's a lot of new technology to learn.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference