On 3/15/07 12:12 PM, "Jason Pamental" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in whole or in part:
> Hi all- > > I'm trying to work through an XML/XSLT solution for creating dynamic > navigation, in this case in a store. I have the Witango bits worked > out to create the XML, and am trying to use XSLT (actually more > specifically the @XSLT tag) to transform that XML into a UL with the > formatting necessary to work with the menu system I have. My problem > is mixing in the HTML with the XML attributes I need to construct the > links. Any tips would be GREATLY appreciated! > > Jason > > Here's the XML: > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> > <nav> > > <home catUid="0" name="Store Main Page"> > <page catUid="9" lo="1" name="Hats"/> > <page catUid="1" lo="2" name="Men's Shirts"/> > <page catUid="2" lo="3" name="Pet Gear"/> > <page catUid="8" lo="4" name="Outerwear"> > <page catUid="11" lo="1" name="Womens Outerwear"/> > </page> > <page catUid="10" lo="5" name="Bags & Luggage"/> > </home> > > </nav> > > and here's the XSLT: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> > <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/ > Transform"> > <xsl:output method="html" /> > <xsl:strip-space elements="*" /> > > <xsl:template match="/"> > <div class="imrcmain0 imgl" style="width:140px;z-index: > 999999;position:relative;"><div class="imcm imde" id="imouter0"><ul > id="imenus0"> > <xsl:apply-templates /> > </ul><div class="imclear"> </div></div></div> > </xsl:template> > > <xsl:template match="page"> > <xsl:if test="count(child::*) > 0"><li class="dvm" style="width: > 100%;"><a href="/store/?c="><span class="imea imeam"><span></span></ > span><xsl:value-of select="@name" /></a> > <div class='imsc'><div class='imsubc' style='width: > 154px;top:-28px;left:135px;'><ul> > <xsl:apply-templates /></ul></div></div></li> > </xsl:if> > <xsl:if test="count(child::*) = 0"> > <xsl:if test="count(parent::*) = 1"><li class='dvm' style='width: > 100%;'><a href="/store/?c="><span class="imea imeam"><span></span></ > span><xsl:value-of select="@name" /></a> > <xsl:apply-templates /></li> > </xsl:if> > <xsl:if test="count(parent::*) > 1"><li><a href="/store/? > c="><span class="imea imeam"><span></span></span><xsl:value-of > select="@name" /></a> > <xsl:apply-templates /></li> > </xsl:if> > </xsl:if> > </xsl:template> > > </xsl:stylesheet> > > What I'm trying to do is create the links with the element attribute > 'catUid' evaluated within the 'href' - so instead of '<a href="/ > store/?c=">' I'd have <a href="/store/?c=9"> where the 9 is derived > from this: <xsl:value-of select="@catUid" />. I've tried putting it > inside the link like so: <a href="/store/?c=<xsl:value-of > select="@catUid" />"> but that blows up. I've also tried wrapping > either side of the portions of the link in CDATA tags but that didn't > seem to help either. Can anyone give me some pointers here? > > Thanks a bunch, > > Jason > > (feel free to tell me that I'm nuts to do this - I haven't figured > out a way to handle the recursion in Witango directly, but I also > want to learn about XSLT and be able to apply it in a wider range of > solutions) 1) You need to use what is called "attribute value templates" (AVT) <http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#attribute-value-templates>. This basically "processes" the value and inserts it directly. <a href="/store/[EMAIL PROTECTED]">...</a> 2) An alternative is to concatenate the value and apply the attribute to the HTML tag: <a> <xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="concat('/store/?c=,@catUid}')" /></xsl:attribute> ... </a> 3) And if you really are having problems, set the value to a variable and use in the AVT: <xsl:variable name="c"><xsl:value-of select="@catUid" /></xsl:variable> <a href="/store/?c={$c}">...</a> Sometimes it depends upon how complex the attribute is. -- Beverly Voth Tier3 Data & Web Services Group, LLC 606-864-0041 http://www.tier3web.com/xml.htm Certified FileMaker 7 Developer Web Design & Hosting Coldfusion, Witango, PHP, MS SQL, MySQL, FMP, XML/XSLT, CSS Over 12 years experience integrating databases and the internet! ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Go to http://www.witango.com/developer/maillist.taf
