xsl:text element?

[Mike Kamermans]

I'm having difficulty XSL tranforming some XML of the form <some_element> <jis>1234</jis></some_element> into the xhtml form <img src="jis/1234.gif"/>

My initial idea was to use the following XSL:

<xsl:text><img src="jis/</xsl:text><xsl:value-of select"./jis/text"/> <xsl:text>.gif"/></xsl:text>

But when I run this, I get the error that "src may not contain a < symbol" (I run this in the XSLT engine that comes with the Exchanger XML editor v2, which uses Xerces 2.6.2 and Saxon 6.5.2). I must admit being slightly confused... am I using <xsl:text> wrong, or should this work for all intents and purposes?

Mike Kamermans

 

[Joris Gillis]

Hi,

use:
<img src="jis/{./jis/text}.gif"/>
or:
<img>
<xsl:attribute name="src">jis/<xsl:value-of
select="./jis/text"/>.gif</xsl:attribute>
</img>

regards,

 

[David Carlisle]

My initial idea was to use the following XSL:

<xsl:text><img src="jis/</xsl:text><xsl:value-of
select"./jis/text"/>

XSLT has to be well formed XML, you can never have element markup inside an attribute in XML so that would be rejected by the XML parser before XSLT started.

if you fix the attribute so that XSLt does see the file, the XSLT engine will tell you that you can't have result elements inside xsl:text (only text)

Use

<img src="jis/{jis}.gif"/>

David