[XML4Lib] XSLT Question

[Enrico Silterra]

If what you have transcribed is accurate,
and from the error message it sounds like it is:
the error is in the way you have tried to embed the link into
the href.
xsl elements cannot be made part of an attribute value in this way.
Remember that the xsl document is also an xml document, and must be 
parseable as
such.

try this:
<a>
<xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="link"/></xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of
select="title"/>
</a>

or use attribute value substitution.


<a href="{link}"><xsl:value-of select="title"/></a>

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#attribute-value-templates


Rick


At 08:24 AM 7/5/2006, Stephen Graham wrote:
>I am trying to write some XSLT which transforms a RSS feed into XHTML. I
>am very nearly there, but I am having problems with one specific aspect.
>Te RSS feed is made up of various items like:
>
><item>
><title>Access to finance: women's enterprise and the role of the
>accountant</title>
><link>http://gallifrey.london.edu/cgi-bin/unicrnsrch.pl?type=isbn&amp;va
>lue=1859084222</link>
><description>Marlow, Susan; Carter, Sara (2005)</description>
><category>Accounting</category>
><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
></item>
>
>I am using the XSLT element "<xsl:for-each>", which is looping thought
>each item in the feed. I want the value of the link XML/RSS element to
>be an actual HREF link for the title element. E.g.
>
><a href="LINK">TITLE</a>
>
>This is what I currently have:
>
><xsl:for-each select="item">
>         <tr>
>         <td><a href="<xsl:value-of select="link"/>"><xsl:value-of
>select="title"/></a></td>
>         <td><xsl:value-of select="description"/></td>
>         </tr>
></xsl:for-each>
>
>This does not work for me, and when I view the RSS feed in the browser
>(referencing the XSL syle sheet) I get an error like:
>
>"The character '<' cannot be used in an attribute value. Error
>processing resource 'http://unicorn.london.edu/cgi-bin/rss/bo...
><td><a href="<xsl:value-of select="link"/>"><xsl:value-of
>select="title"/></a></..."
>How do I go about making the title into a HREF using the link element as
>the URL? I've tried assigning the value of the link element to a
>xsl:param and a xsl:varaible, and then reference that, but I haven't
>been successful. Any ideas/help would be appreciated.
>
>Stephen
>
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