XSLT & HTML

[JustinCarmony]

My employer wants me to explore the possibilities of XSLT for a new
project I am working on. It seems to work great for some things, but
here is an issue:

My boss wants to make a XML based web service, and a XSLT template to
parse that XML into a fully functioning webpage. There is the issue, I
can modify content between HTML tags and such, but lets say the
following example:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<div id="mainNav">
<ul>
<xsl:for-each select="/linkLists/linkList/link">
<li class="home"><a href="#"><span></span><xsl:value-of
select="defaultText" /></a></li>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>
</div>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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I can change the default Text. However, I cannot change values within
the <li> and <a> tags without getting an error. The following does not
work:

<li class="<xsl:value-of select="className" />"><a href="<xsl:value-of
select="linkURL />"><span></span><xsl:value-of select="defaultText"
/></a></li>

Is there a way to accomplish this and parse correctly? Thank you.

 

[Martin Honnen]

<li class="<xsl:value-of select="className" />"><a href="<xsl:value-of
select="linkURL />"><span></span><xsl:value-of select="defaultText"
/></a></li>

Use attribute value templates e.g.
<li class="{className}"><a href="{linkURL}">
see
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#attribute-value-templates>

 

[JustinCarmony]

Thanks!

Use attribute value templates e.g.
<li class="{className}"><a href="{linkURL}">
see
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#attribute-value-templates>

 

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<li class="<xsl:value-of select="className" />">

<li>
<xsl:attribute name"class">
<xsl:value-of select="defaulText"/>
<xsl:attribute>
[...]
</li>


or a shorter version :
<xsl:variable name="trick" select="defaultText"/>
<li class="{$trick}">
[...]
</li>

 

[Peter Flynn]

<li class="<xsl:value-of select="className" />"><a href="<xsl:value-of
select="linkURL />"><span></span><xsl:value-of select="defaultText"
/></a></li>

Others have posted suggested solutions; here's the explanation:
XSLT is XML, so it has to follow the rules and be well-formed. You can't
put element markup in an attribute value, and you can't nest quotes, so
<li class="<xsl:value-of select="className" />">
is a non-concept.

///Peter