combining values from for-each loop..impossible?

Brian Campbell · June 5th, 2006, 07:05 PM

i have the following xml...

Code:

<channel>
   <title>Mercedes Benz Fashion Week - Los Angeles</title>
   <id>754</id>
   <channel>
      <title>Los Angeles - Highlights</title>
      <id>758</id>
   </channel>
   <channel>
      <title>Los Angeles - Features</title>
      <id>778</id>
   </channel>
</channel>

i want to build a url from the two child channels like so...

Code:

<a href="page.php?page=highlights&id=758" onclick="submit(755,778)">Highlights</a>

in a previous post (see link below) Michael kay showed me how i can differentiate between the two child channels using contains(). However, i need to capture data (the id) from both child elements and put it into an onclick function (in the correct order). How do i capture both and build the link? Assigning variables in a for-each loop makes those variables local to the loop so i can't pass them out :(

http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=45260

mhkay · June 6th, 2006, 02:23 AM

You want something like this:

<xsl:attribute name="onclick">
  <xsl:text>submit(</xsl:text>
  <xsl:for-each select="channel">
    <xsl:value-of select="@id"/>
    <xsl:if test="position() != last()">,</xsl:if>
  </xsl:for-each>
  <xsl:text>)</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>

It's easier in XSLT 2.0:

<xsl:attribute name="onclick">
  <xsl:text>submit(</xsl:text>
  <xsl:value-of select="channel/@id" separator=","/>
  <xsl:text>)</xsl:text>
</xsl:attribute>

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

Brian Campbell · June 6th, 2006, 10:58 AM

Perfect! DIdn't even know you could do that. Thank you!