Hi all,

Could any body give me some advice on my problem.

I have a form with a text box which data can be entered and an option box with a list of options to select.
There is also a check box and if the user selects the check box, what ever value is in the option box is posted to the database but if the checkbox is not checked, what ever value is in the textbox is posted to the DB. This could work if I could find a way to what ever value is in the option box into an xsl:variable when the form is posted.

Below is the code that I thought would complete this action but it does not.

<xsl:template name="check">

<form method="POST" action="****.xsql">


<xsl:variable name="op_value">
<xsl:value-of select="type[@option='module']" />
</xsl:xsl:variable>

<input type="text" name="mod" value="{ROWSET/ROW/Module/text()}" size="15" />
<select name="module"><xsl:apply-templates select="ROWSET/ROW/MODULEID" /> </select>
<input type="checkbox" name="check" value="y"/>
</form>


<xsl:value-of select="$op_value" />

</xsl:template>


<xsl:template match="MODULEID">
<option value="{../MODULEID}">
<xsl:value-of select="../MODULE_TYPE" />
</option>

</xsl:template>

You're confused about the relationship of XSLT to HTML. Your XSLT stylesheet generates the HTML page and then finishes execution. Then the browser displays the generated page. By the time the user enters values in the textbox, XSLT has done its job and gone home for tea.

You can fire off another transformation from Javascript in response to user input, but it's not clear that this is the right solution to your problem.

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

Thanks for the input, your right in what you say. The way I got around this was to write procedures in pl/sql. It now works so all is good for now!

Thanks again!