href values and value-of

[Dante]

Hello. I am creating an xml list of links with structure like the below:

<item>
<title>Bullet Madness</title>
<uri>http://www.stylegala.com/archive/bulletmadness/</uri> <description>200 bullets, each of them nice in their own way</description> </item>

I need to create a link with that data. When I tried to do something like <a href="<xsl:value-of select="uri">">text</a>

I got the error that the structure was not well formed. How else would I create a link with proper structure?

Thanks, Dante

 

[Chris Huebsch]

Dante (29 Sep 2004 20:46:59 -0700):

<item>
<title>Bullet Madness</title>
<uri>http://www.stylegala.com/archive/bulletmadness/</uri> <description>200 bullets, each of them nice in their own way</description> </item>

I need to create a link with that data. When I tried to do something like <a href="<xsl:value-of select="uri">">text</a>

<a>
<xsl:attribute><xsl:value-of select="uri"/></xsl:attribute> text </a>

Chris

 

[Malcolm Dew-Jones]

Dante wrote:

Hello. I am creating an xml list of links with structure like the below:

<item>
<title>Bullet Madness</title>
<uri>http://www.stylegala.com/archive/bulletmadness/</uri> <description>200 bullets, each of them nice in their own way</description> </item>

I need to create a link with that data. When I tried to do something like <a href="<xsl:value-of select="uri">">text</a>

I got the error that the structure was not well formed. How else would I create a link with proper structure?

Something like

&lt;a href="<xsl:value-of select="uri">"&gt; text &lt;/a&gt;

 

[Richard Tobin]

<a href="<xsl:value-of select="uri">">text</a>

[/QUOTE]

<a>
<xsl:attribute><xsl:value-of select="uri"/></xsl:attribute> text </a>

You forgot the attribute name:

<xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="uri"/></xsl:attribute>

There's a shorthand for attribute values:

<a href="{uri}">text</a>

See "attribute-value-templates" in the XSLT spec.

-- Richard

 

[Chris Huebsch]

Richard Tobin (30 Sep 2004 11:02:49 GMT):

You forgot the attribute name:

oh. yes. you are right. Thank you.

<a href="{uri}">text</a>

this looks most elegant.

Chris

 

[Joris Gillis]

....or use the shortest notation:

<a href="{uri}">text</a>

Joris Gillis

 

[Dante]

<a>
<xsl:attribute><xsl:value-of select="uri"/></xsl:attribute> text </a>

Chris

Wouldn't you have to specify the attribute, by doing
<xsl:attribute="href"><xsl:value-of select="uri"/></xsl:attribute> ?

Dante

 

[Chris Huebsch]

Dante (30 Sep 2004 08:59:31 -0700):

Wouldn't you have to specify the attribute, by doing
<xsl:attribute="href"><xsl:value-of select="uri"/></xsl:attribute> ?

as others stated already

<xsl:attribute name="href">....

Chris