Hello,

I am trying to get a value from input file and populate the value in the formvalue section. The following is what I did, but I got an error message.

<Books>
  <Book>
   <Title>
     <b><Form formtypid=123 formName=Book formvalue=<xsl:value of select="..path here"/></b>
   </Title>
  </Book>
</Books>

Can someone tell me what's went wrong? and what is the correct way of doing it?

Thanks in advance!

Haixia

You can't use an element inside an attribute, so XSLT has another mechanism for constructing attribute values, called an attribute value template or AVT:

<Form formtypid="123" formName="Book" formvalue="{expr}"/>

where expr is any XPath expression.

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

Michael,
Thank you very much. It worked!