XSLT with value of select in URL string

Question

I want to combine some XSL with XML and put out the resulting HTML.

My XSl contains this line which doesnt work:

<a href="www.domain.com/account/business/get/?t=2&amp;id=<xsl:value-of select="row/objectid"/>">Click here</a>

The desired output would be:

<a href="www.domain.com/account/business/get/?t=2&id=6">Click here</a>

The code works when I leave out the <xsl:value-of select="row/objectid"/> part in the URL. It also works when I place the <xsl:value-of select="row/objectid"/> outside the hyperlink tag, so i KNOW the value-of-select to be correct by itself.

So I suspect that the quotes are messing things up...how can I fix this?

PS. I tried replacing " with ' as well

pls show the surround XSL code.

Richard Schneider
– Richard Schneider

2011-03-29 20:22:40 +00:00
Commented Mar 29, 2011 at 20:22 — Richard Schneider
– Richard Schneider, Commented Mar 29, 2011 at 20:22

Wayne · Accepted Answer · 2011-03-30 18:27:54Z

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Your stylesheet should contain well-formed XML, so you can't include the output from value-of in an attribute. Use an attribute value template instead:

<a href="www.domain.com/account/business/get/?t=2&amp;id={row/objectid}"
  >Click here</a>

The expression in curly braces will be evaluated and replaced with its output.

edited Mar 30, 2011 at 18:27

user357812

answered Mar 29, 2011 at 20:24

Wayne

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Flack Over a year ago

I think double-quote before {row is misplaced.

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