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Weird behavior with attributes and >
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- Subject: [xsl] Weird behavior with attributes and >
- From: "Nesbitt, David" <DNesbitt at gensys dot com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 16:19:30 -0700
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Good People,
I have a follow-up on attributes.
I am trying to use XSLT to create JSPs. In the JSP, JSP expressions are
often used to provide form element attribute values. For example:
<input
type="hidden"
name="<%= javaName %>"
value="<%= javaValue %>">
I need to generate JSP v1.0 (so I can't use the new JSP XML
representations). Here is what I have tried to do:
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:variable name="open.expression"><![CDATA[<%= ]]></xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="close.expression"><![CDATA[ %>]]></xsl:variable>
. . .
<input>
<xsl:attribute name="type">hidden</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="name">
<xsl:value-of select="$open.expression"
disable-output-escaping="yes"/>javaName<xsl:value-of
select="$close.expression" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:attribute name="value">
<xsl:value-of select="$open.expression"
disable-output-escaping="yes"/>javaValue<xsl:value-of
select="$close.expression" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
<xsl:attribute name="value">
</input>
Unfortunately, the following gets created:
<input type="hidden" name="<%= javaName %>" value="<%= javaValue
%>">
Is there anyway I can get around the conversion of ">" to ">" within
attributes. I am confused because I am using the CDATA and
disable-output-escaping trick to get around the conversion. When I use
the value-of technique outside of attributes, the ">" does not get
converted.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Dave
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