RE: Start and end an anchor tag in 2 different if's?

Hi Hardy,

Straight answer is no. Why? Because you are using xslt that is not
well-formed - it should close the <a> element before the <xsl:if>.

You need a different approach here.

HTH,
<prs/>

-----Original Message-----
From: Hardy Merrill [mailto:HMerrill(_at_)dhcr(_dot_)state(_dot_)ny(_dot_)us] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:51 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Start and end an anchor tag in 2 different if's?

Given this snippet from an XSL style sheet:
----------------------------------------------------------

        <xsl:if test="district_active='1'">
                <a>
                        <xsl:attribute name="href">LegislatorEdit.asp
                                ?lid=<xsl:value-of
select="legislator_id" />
                                &amp;lstat=<xsl:value-of select="$lstat"
/>
                                &amp;dtype=<xsl:value-of select="$dtype"
/>
                                &amp;dno=<xsl:value-of select="$dno" />
                        </xsl:attribute>
        </xsl:if>
                                
        <xsl:choose>
                <xsl:when test="substring(full_name,1,6) = 'Vacant'">
                        <xsl:value-of select="'Vacant'" />
                </xsl:when>
                <xsl:otherwise>
                        <xsl:value-of select="full_name" />
                </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>
                                                
        <xsl:if test="district_active='1'">
                </a>   <!--============ Notice this ==============-->
        </xsl:if>

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Can't the first if-test start an <A> tag, and the 2nd if-test end it with
</A>?  I want to start the anchor, then fill in the display text based on a
choose, and then end the anchor.

When I try this I get this error

msxml4.dll error '80004005' 
The stylesheet does not contain a document element. The stylesheet may be
empty, or it may not be a well-formed XML document. 

Is there something obvious that I'm doing wrong?

TIA.

Hardy Merrill

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