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RE: newbie question
- From: "Martinez, Brian" <brian dot martinez at trip dot com>
- To: "'xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:00:03 -0600
- Subject: RE: [xsl] newbie question
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> From: Markus Jais [mailto:markusjais@yahoo.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 3:19 PM
> Subject: [xsl] newbie question
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> but I do not understand. why are the contents of the <english_name>,
> <german_name> and <prey> printed and why is value="" ??
value-of returns the contents of your select expression, which is evaluated
as a string. If the expression returns a node-set (as in your example),
value-of ignores any children elements and their attributes and just returns
the text, or nothing if the element is empty.
> and that "{comment}" would access the value of the "comment"
> attribute.
First, you haven't defined an XSLT variable anywhere to hold the textual
value of comment, i.e.:
<xsl:for-each select="/birds/eagles">
<xsl:variable name="comment" select="species/@comment"/>
Then you need to properly reference the variable in your markup:
<input type="text" name="bla" value="{$comment}"/> <!-- note $ token -->
</xsl:for-each>
hth,
b.
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