You can select the attribute as
//inactiveTab[(_at_)name='Email']/@ID
and you can save it in a variable (if you need to) as
<xsl:variable name="id" select="//inactiveTab[(_at_)name='Email']"/>
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Johnson [mailto:artpunx(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: 30 November 2007 15:23
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] Getting and using an xml attribute
Hello...
Is it possible to select an attribute, take its value and
re-use it elsewhere?
I have some xml...the ID attribute value changes depending on
user, but the name attribute always stays the same. So it may
look like this....
<navigation>
<inactiveTab ID="1" name="Home"/>
<inactiveTab ID="2" name="Away"/>
<inactiveTab ID="3" name="Foo"/>
<inactiveTab ID="4" name="Bar"/> </navigation>
....or this....
<navigation>
<inactiveTab ID="100" name="Home"/>
<inactiveTab ID="200" name="Away"/>
<inactiveTab ID="300" name="Foo"/>
<inactiveTab ID="400" name="Bar"/> </navigation>
Behind the scenes, urls are created automatically that
incorporate the ID....
...inactiveTabID=1&uP_sparam=mode&mode=view
...inactiveTabID=2&uP_sparam=mode&mode=view
...inactiveTabID=3&uP_sparam=mode&mode=view
....or this....
...inactiveTabID=100&uP_sparam=mode&mode=view
...inactiveTabID=200&uP_sparam=mode&mode=view
...inactiveTabID=300&uP_sparam=mode&mode=view
...they contain the ID, but never the name.
I need to create a "manual" url, but because the ID value
changes, I need a way to "find out" what the ID value is
first. I thought by finding the element that contains
name='Email, like this...
//inactiveTab[(_at_)name='Email']
...I could then take the value of any ID attribute and then
append it to the end of my manual URL(...as a variable?). I
would then always
(hopefully!) know that the manual url would look like the
automatically generated URL.
So, my question is, how do I capture the value of the ID
attribute of any element containing name="Home" and make it
into something "re-usable"?
Does this make sense? I hope I am not over complicating things!!!
Thanks for your help...
Aaron
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