Use but Hide Attribute

jkmyoung · August 1st, 2006, 06:18 PM

<xsl:template match="JBU:indexterm">
<a name="{@name}" id="{@id}"/>
</xsl:template>

bonekrusher · August 2nd, 2006, 06:38 AM

Thanks for the help, but its not what I am looking for. All suggestions posted spit out this:

Code:

</a><p><a name="blue" id="Blueprint"></a>

I need it to look like this:

Code:

</a><p><a name="blue">Blueprint</a>

My orginal code does this but >Blueprint< shows up as text, I want it to be hidden. Maybe I am trying to do something it cant. Anyway thanks for all the help

Bones

joefawcett · August 2nd, 2006, 06:49 AM

You need to decide what the output must look like, e.g. do you want:[code]
<a name="blue"><span style="display:none">Blueprint</span></a>
[code]
For that you need:

Code:

<xsl:template match="JBU:indexterm">
  <a name="{@name}">"><span style="display:none"><xsl:value-of select="{@id}"/></span></a>
</xsl:template>

There seems little point in having this but I know people often get strange requirements...

--

Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

mhkay · August 2nd, 2006, 06:53 AM

If you generate

<a name="blue">Blueprint</a>

then it won't be hidden. If you want it to be hidden then you need to generate something different, for example a CSS style attribute.

You seem to be terribly confused. As I said before, decide first what HTML you want to generate. Do a mockup of the HTML page until you get what you want. Then start writing the XSLT code to produce this page.

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

bonekrusher · August 2nd, 2006, 08:23 AM

Joe,

Thats was it!

Code:

<xsl:template match="JBU:indexterm">
        <a>
            <span style="display:none; ">
                <xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of select="@name"/></xsl:attribute>
                <xsl:value-of select="@id"/>
            </span>
        </a>

Thanks for everyones help!