You are forgetting what you are actually doing here, which is building a
result tree via your templates.
Longhand:
<xsl:element name="a">
<xsl:attribute
name="href">SomeURL.jsp?FirstName=FirstValue&SecondValue=<xsl:value-
of select="AAA/BBB"/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="DDD"/></xsl:text>
</xsl:element>
[i.e. append an element called "a" to the result tree, with an attribute
"href" with the value as specified and the text value of the "DDD" node
on the current tree.]
Shorthand (since that is clearly too much typing]
<a
href="SomeURL.jsp?FirstName=FirstValue&SecondValue={AAA/BBB}"><xsl:v
alue-of select="DDD"/></a>
[i.e. use an attribute value template - denoted by {} ]
If you think of it in the longhand terms (always remembering that you
are building result tree fragments) you won't get as confused...
HTH,
Ben
-----Original Message-----
From: JWALLIS(_at_)transentric(_dot_)com
[mailto:JWALLIS(_at_)transentric(_dot_)com]
Sent: 28 October 2002 13:52
To: XSL-List(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] How do I generate an HTML anchor element?
I have checked the FAQ's for mulberrytech, jennitennison, and Pawson's
without any success. I must not be inputting the search criteria
correctly.
All I'm trying to do is generate an HTML anchor tag. I all the
combinations get syntax errors .
Here is where I originally started:
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<a HREF="SomeURL.jsp?FirstName=FirstValue&SecondValue
=<xsl:value-of select="AAA/BBB"/>> <xsl:value-of select="DDD"/>
</a>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
I have tried just about every weird combination in order get around all
the errors. I'll skip listing all of them for sake of brevity - but here
is a couple attempts: <a HREF="SomeURL.jsp?FirstName=FirstValue&
SecondValue=SecondValue...>someValue</a>
<a HREF="SomeURL.jsp?FirstName=FirstValue&
SecondValue=SecondValue...>someValue
</a>
So if someone could just point me to a place in one of the FAQ's that
has info on the anchor tagI would appreciate it.
Thanks in advance, Jim.
<AAA>
<BBB>1</BBB>
<CCC>2</CCC>
</AAA>
<DDD>3</DDD>
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