RE: The XSL-List Digest V3 #192

[Mike Van Riper <Van at Icarian dot com>]

Joan,

I do this all the time in my transformations that are generating HTML
output. It can be done with XSLT. Typically, you would use an <xsl:element>
to generate the <input> HTML element. Using your example, it would look
something like this:

<xsl:element name="input">
   <xsl:attribute name="type">text</xsl:attribute>
   <xsl:attribute name="name">productName</xsl:attribute>
   <xsl:attribute name="value"><xsl:value-of select="."></xsl:attribute>
   <xsl:attribute name="size">25</xsl:attribute>
   <xsl:attribute name="maxlength">30</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>

If this doesn't make sense to you, get an XSLT reference and look at the
explanation of how the <xsl:element> tag is handled.

Hope this helps,
  Mike Van Riper
  van@icarian.com 

-----Original Message-----
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 15:22:07 -0700
From: Joan Shu <jshu@iscribe.com>
Subject: How to embed xsl:value-of into html tag

Hi,

I can't get this working. value of the input field will be <xsl:value-of
select="."> 
instead of the real name -- XML Bible. I guess XSLT will not transform any
XSL statement inside 
a html tag.

Any workaround will be really appreciated. Thanks,
Joan

=============xsl code=================
<xsl:template match="productName">

	<input type="text" name="productName" value='&lt;xsl:value-of
select="."/&gt;' size="25" maxlength="30" />

</xsl:template>

=============xml code================
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<productName> XML Bible </productName>

=============output==============
<input type="text" name="productName" value='<xsl:value-of select="."/>'
size ="25" maxlength="30" />

==========what I want==============
<input type="text" name="productName" value='XML Bible'  size ="25"
maxlength="30" />


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