[thelist] Avoid the CDATA dance in XSL

Jason Bauer jbauer at mtu.edu
Fri May 31 10:55:00 CDT 2002


At 07:52 PM 5/31/02 +1000, you wrote:
>CDATA DANCE:
><![CDATA[<a href="?op=info&id=]]><xsl:value-of select="uid"
>/><![CDATA[">]]><xsl:value-of
>select="alias" /><![CDATA[</a>]]>

This works too:

<a href="?op=info&amp;id={uid}"><xsl:value-of select="alias" /></a>

Putting {} around an XPath expression in an attribute value puts the value
of the element pointed into the attribute value...

Also, notice the &amp; instead of &.


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Jason Bauer
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