Get the value of an Attribute in XSL 2

Kirilla · Jun 14, 2001

Hi.

Could anybody help? I don't know, what XPath I should use to get the value of a node. Here are my XML and XSL source:

Contacts.xml
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="alldata.xsl"?>
<contacts>
<contact id="b">
<name>Nick</name>
<age>26</age>
<city>Budapest</city>
</contact>
<contact id="u">
<name>Peter</name>
<age>28</age>
<city>London</city>
</contact>
</contacts>

alldata.xsl
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="

http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl">

<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="//contact"/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="contact">
<div>
<xsl:element name="??????">
<xsl:if match=".[@id='b']">
<xsl:attribute name="style">color:red</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select="name"/><br/>
<xsl:value-of select="age"/><br/>
<xsl:value-of select="city"/>
</xsl:element>
</div>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Question: I'd like to put the value of id attribute of contact node as element( <b> or <u>). What XPath do I use?

regards, Kirilla

dianal · Jun 14, 2001

Hello, Kirilla,
I would suggest a workaround of your problem.
Use <span> element - it will not harm your HTML page but can be very useful in applying styles.
So your alldata.xsl will look like:
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="

http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl">

<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="//contact"/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="contact">
<div>
<xsl:element name="span">
<xsl:if match=".[@id='b']">
<xsl:attribute name="style">font-weight:bold</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if match=".[@id='u']">
<xsl:attribute name="style">text-decoration:underline</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select="name"/><br/>
<xsl:value-of select="age"/><br/>
<xsl:value-of select="city"/>
</xsl:element>
</div>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Hope this helps.
D.

Kirilla · Jun 15, 2001

Hi dianal.

Thanks a lot for your answer. I know, there are other ways to solve this problem, but I'd like to learn some of these.
I've read the w3school's tutorial and I saw this solution, but it didn't work:

<xsl:element name="{@id}">

As I know, brace is used to variables and param tags. I'd like to understand how it is working and why doesn't my solution work. <xsl:element name="{@id}">

The w3school address is here:

http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/el_element.asp

best regards, Kirilla

dianal · Jun 18, 2001

Hello, Kirilla,
The tricky part is with using old-dated naming space

http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl,

the result was something like <{id}> Nick ...
When using new naming space

http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform

everything is working as expected.
<xsl:element name="{@id}"> generates <b> Nick </b> and so on.
But you have to do server-side transforming (using ASP for example.)
In the w3schools example it was not shown which naming space was used.
I would recommend ZVON XSL Tutorial:

http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSLTutorial/Books/Book1/index.html

Form main page there are also links to other tutorials and references.
Hope this helps.
D.

Kirilla · Jun 19, 2001

Hi dianal.

I also found the answer for my question. Thanks a lot for your answer. It was really helpfull. The WD-xsl namespace is supported by IE but the W3C recommendetion is XSL/Transform.

best regards, Kirilla

gunawandjon · Feb 27, 2002

Hi,
in IE5.5 I get error
Unknown method. -->count()<--
when using
xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="

http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl"

name space

but using
xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="

http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"

only return an empty result

I am trying to count how many nodes i have and will output a non-blank space if 0

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