Re: [xsl] Adding HTML Data Into XSL File

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Scott,

At 02:31 PM 7/2/2002, you wrote:
> I have been directed to add a <img src="/somepathtoanimage"> to the xsl. 
> But the path needs to be dynamic (coming from a servlet parameter). So I 
> created a <xsl:param name="image" select="'/defaultpath'" />
> And when I do the transform, I try and put in a valid generated path, but 
> it does not work. When I source the page,  the browser shows the following:
>
> </table>&lt;img src="/somepaththat/isvalid/a.gif"&gt;</form>
>
> So it prints the above to the screen and not <img 
> src="/somepaththat/isvalid/a.gif"> which would show the a.gif.
If you were to show us the piece of code which generates the <img/> (and in 
which you use the parameter you set up), someone could say why the <img/> 
in your XSLT is being processed as a string and not a node.


> Is this the way people add dynamic HTML do their transformation, or is 
> there a better way, using some other tool.?
From what you have described this sounds like a perfectly reasonable way 
of doing it.






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