RE: How to put node value into an attribute

Use attribute value templates:

<input type='text' name='{(_at_)name}'/>

Michael Kay

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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of 
> Gregory Propf
> Sent: 30 April 2003 06:11
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> Subject: [xsl] How to put node value into an attribute
>
>
> I am trying to get the value of an XML node into an attribute 
> of a tag 
> that I am generating in XSL.  The idea is something like this.
>
>
> <input type='text' name='<xsl:value-of select="@name"/>'/>
>
>
> Where the xsl:value-of (this is within a template) becomes translated 
> into the value of the input attribute in the output.  This does not 
> work, however.  I get this from xalan.
>
> Line 18; Column -1; XSLT Error 
> (javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException): 
> javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: 
> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: 
> Use "&lt;" for "<" in attribute values.
>
> What is the correct way to do this kind of thing?
>
>
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