I want to create and HTML <SELECT> control from an XSL:VARIABLE.

I have several of the same drop down in my html and want to leverage the XSL:variable to represent the options available. These options remain constant and I als need to select the option matching the value from the xml document I'm processing.

I haven't found anything to do this yet.

Something like...

<xsl:variable name="ddlOptions">
  <option>
    <value>days</value>
    <displayValue>day(s)</displayValue>
  </option>
  <option>
    <value>months</value>
    <displayValue>month(s)</displayValue>
  </option>
  <option>
    <value>years</value>
    <displayValue>year(s)</displayValue>
  </option>
</xsl:variable>


Now I need to loop thru this variable building the options for a select and select the correct option based on a value from my xml.

Sorry for the vagueness, but I can't find any real help out there.

I'm assuming you are using XSLT 2.0.

If you create a variable containing your 'selected' value:

<xsl:variable name="selectedOption" select="/mydata/value" />

<select>
<xsl:for-each select="$ddlOptions/option">

  <option value="{value}">
  <xsl:if test="string(value) = $selectedOption">
    <xsl:attribute name="selected" select="selected"/>
  </xsl:if>
    <xsl:value-of select="displayValue"/>
  </option>
</xsl:for-each>
</select>

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/