Use but Hide Attribute

bonekrusher · July 31st, 2006, 07:26 PM

Hi all,

How do I hide this line
<xsl:value-of select="@id" />

but use its value in the html output?

Code:

<xsl:template match="JBU:indexterm">
- <a>
- <xsl:attribute name="name">
  <xsl:value-of select="@name" /> 
  </xsl:attribute>
  <xsl:value-of select="@id" /> 
  </a>
  </xsl:template>

Thanks

r_ganesh76 · July 31st, 2006, 11:58 PM

what do you mean by hiding?

Regards
Ganesh
http://ganeshprof.blogspot.com

mhkay · August 1st, 2006, 03:29 AM

I don't know what you mean. What HTML output are you trying to generate?

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

bonekrusher · August 1st, 2006, 05:40 AM

Hi All,

The xslt codes spitz out this in HTML:

Code:

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

the browser view looks like this:

Code:

BlueprintFrom the very beginning, our goal

I want to hide the word "Blueprint" which is derived from

Code:

  <xsl:value-of select="@id" />

I only want to use "blue"(@name) as an anchor and "Blueprint" (@id) as a Index reference later on, but not see it in the HTML output.

I hope this helps.

Thx
Bones

mhkay · August 1st, 2006, 06:20 AM

You've already got code to output the name attribute:

<xsl:attribute name="name">
  <xsl:value-of select="@name" />
  </xsl:attribute>

Just do the same with the id attribute:
<xsl:attribute name="name">
  <xsl:value-of select="@id" />
</xsl:attribute>

or for brevity just do

<xsl:copy-of select="@name|@id"/>

I'm having trouble seeing where your difficulty lies.

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

bonekrusher · August 1st, 2006, 08:15 AM

Thanks, I try your suggestions.

The Difficulty lies in the @id in the output, but I need it for creating the index.

Ideally this:

"BlueprintFrom the very beginning, our goal"

Should be:

"From the very beginning, our goal"

"Blueprint" is the bookmark, but I dont want to see it in the output.

mhkay · August 1st, 2006, 08:50 AM

Do you actually know what HTML "source" you want to generate? If so, show us. If not, then don't start trying to write XSLT code - you should never write a program if you don't what output you want to produce.

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

bonekrusher · August 1st, 2006, 09:59 AM

I dont think I am explaining correctly.

I know its in laymenâs, so please forgive me. I am trying to learn XSLT.

this is how it outputs now

Code:

</a><p><a name="blue">Blueprint</a>From the very beginning, our goal has blah blah etc..<p>

but I want to hide in the output the >Blueprint< because it is a bookmark not part of the text...

mhkay · August 1st, 2006, 10:12 AM

If all you want to do is to leave out the text that says "Blueprint", then just leave out the <xsl:value-of> instruction that writes this text.

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

bonekrusher · August 1st, 2006, 11:39 AM

Thanks for the help.

Bones