Hi,
Attribute value template as it reads is used when you try to give a value to
the atribute. for example, If you are forming an xml element (or HTML for
instance) and you want to populate the value of the attribute, then you make
use of attribute value templates.
for instance. you want to form an element <person id = "xxx"/>
and if the value xxx is coming from xml , for instance from an attribute
called id of an element called candidate..then you may do something along
the lines of..
<xsl:template match "candidate">
<xsl:variable name = "person-id" select = "@id">
<person id = "{$person-id}"/>
<!-- or .. <person id = "{(_at_)id}"/>
</xsl:template>
But when you just want to output a variable, you can straight away write
<xsl:value-of select = "@id"/>
You dont need any attribute value template for the requirement you have
given.
one more thing.. you dont need a '.' to get to the context node's children..
in other words.. './@name' in your case is same as '@name'
HTH
Vasu Chakkera
From: "David B. Bitton" <david(_at_)codenoevil(_dot_)com>
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Subject: [xsl] Attribute Value Template
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 00:11:48 -0500
OK,
So now i have the following non-functioning template:
<xsl:template match="sub">
<xsl:variable name="name" select="./@name"/>
<xsl:value-of select="{$name}"/>
</xsl:template>
What I am trying to accomplish is extracting a value from the underlying
XML, and then pulling a value from an xsl:variable with the same name as
the data that came from the XML.
Any ideas? :)
--
David B. Bitton
david(_at_)codenoevil(_dot_)com
www.codenoevil.com
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