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XSL Need Help Translating XML To HTML Hyperlink

By qwijibow, in Programming

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qwijibow
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Sorry if this sounds stupid, but im new to XML, and i just cant get my head around this problem.

imagine the following XML

<student name=chris>  <link>http://.chris.com</link><student>


i need to use XSL to translate that to a html hyperlink in the form of

<a hreh="http://chris.com">chris</a>


at first i tried


<a href=" <xsl:value-of select="student/link"/>"><xsl:value-of select="student/@name"/></a>


but that generates a nasty error, obviously because i have embedded tags.

how am i meant to solve this problem ????

i have tried storeing "chris.com" in a xsl variable, but then all i get is a hyperlink to a variable name.

google is clueless, does anyone here have any idea's ??

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rkage
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Sorry about the long wait for a while. I was stomped on this one last night and my connection went off so I couldn't get to do any more testing, but I remembered how to do what you want. For the sake of completion, here is the XML file I used;


<?xml version="1.0"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="links.xsl"?><students>[tab][/tab]<student name="Chris">  <link>chris.com/ name="Kage">  <link>http://kage.astahost.com</link>[tab][/tab]</student></students>

So to do what you want, just assign the tag <a> and then use the <xsl:attribute name=" "></xsl: attribute>Text for link here</a> So the complete code I used is;


<?xml version="1.0"?><xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"                              xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform/ ; <xsl:template match="/"><html><body><xsl:for-each select="students/student"> <a><xsl:attribute name="href">       <xsl:value-of select="link"/></xsl:attribute>        <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>        </a>      <br /></xsl:for-each></body></html></xsl:template></xsl:stylesheet>

Hope this helped. It certainly relit a spark in my head about XML. If you've any qu's in the future on XML, just give me a buzz.


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qwijibow    0

qwijibow
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Thanks, thats exactly what i needed, i didnt even know htat xsl:attribute existed.

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