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Re: [xsl] Looking for a concise way of specifying an conditional attribute in output

2011-05-05 15:07:00
Thank you Andrew, Michael and Ken!

I use value-of so much I forgot about it's impact on "non-strings".
This information also helped me with a very similar issue I just ran
into today where I was writing a function that was returning a boolean
true or false, but it was always true... because value-of was turning
it into a string.

/John

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:25 AM, Andrew Welch 
<andrew(_dot_)j(_dot_)welch(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
<option value="{@value}>
 <xsl:value-of select="isSelected(@value,something)">
 other stuff
</option>

with a reusable function like this

<xsl:function name="isSelected">
 <xsl:param name="v1"/>
 <xsl:param name="v2"/>
 <xsl:if test="$v1 eq $v2"><xsl:attribute name="selected"
select="'selected'" /></xsl:if>
</xsl:function>


As has been said you need xsl:sequence or xsl:copy-of to get the whole
node not just the value of the node, but you could also make that
function a little more generic to create any attribute:

<xsl:function name="f:createAtt">
 <xsl:param name="name"/>
 <xsl:param name="value"/>
 <xsl:attribute name="{$name}" select="$value"/>
</xsl:function>

and then call it passing the the name value pair for the attribute,
and put the condition in a predicate:

<foo>
 <xsl:sequence select="f:createAtt('foo', 'bar')[current()/@value =
$something]"/>


cheers
andrew



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