Put it in curly braces { }
eg href="blah.location={$testvar}"
^ ^
or build the attribute:
<xsl:attribute name="href">
<xsl:text>location=</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$testvar"/>
</xsl:attribute>
Some other points about your post:
- are you intending to transform client side? If so you can only use XSLT 1.0
- never use notepad! It will break you eventually... there are plenty
of XSLT editors out there and even more XML editors, any of those are
better than notepad.
On 9/21/05, andrew(_at_)rarebird(_dot_)u-net(_dot_)com
<andrew(_at_)rarebird(_dot_)u-net(_dot_)com> wrote:
Please forgive me if this posted twice ... I had a powercut as I hit send
earlier.
I am a real newbie to XSLT, creating a simple proof of concept application
so that my employers might see the value of transforming and presenting some
XML from a very large Excel spreadsheet.
I am using notepad as the editor and the application is check in and will be
displayed in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. (MSXML). I am attempting to use
XSLT 2.0 as described in Dr Tennison's book.
For the demo, the application has three frames controlled by a menu in one
frame. The menu, and other documents, are created by transforming XML
pulled from Excel. Bookmark is a field in the Excel that exists in each
mode of the XML. The creation of textvar works as I wish (xsl:value-of
demonstrates this to me).
The pertinent code extract is ...
...
<xsl:variable name ="testvar" select="concat('Section_1#',Bookmark)" as=
"xs:string" />
<a name="Introduction" href="javascript:location='#Introduction';
parent.main_body.location=$testvar;
parent.right_side.location='section_1_tools.xml'">
<img src="Bullets/SmallBlueBullet.gif" align="absmiddle"
border ="0" alt="{string(Heading2)}" /> </a>
...
My problem is with having testvar read as "Section_1#Intro" (if Bookmark for
this node was "Intro"). No matter how I try to place it - quotes, with /
without $ etc, is is always read as a literal and the changes in the other
frame just don't happen as desired.
I have examined the archive and cannot find a solution (but my lack f skill
may mean I missed an obvious analogue).
I am truely stumped - I know how to escape in a <script> </script> code
block, but this situation is different.
Your help greatly appreciated.
Andrew
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