XSL question

Post #12,999 by admin 10/11/01 5:08:44 PM Reply	XSL question I'm trying to create a link from a data element, but since XSL has to be well-formed XML, I can't figure out how to get the < and > bits in the stream correctly. Any ideas? Basically, if I have an element called <OBJECT_TYPE>, I want to create a link that looks like <a href="someurl?p_type=the_object_type">the_object_type</a> Regards, -scott anderson
Post #13,004 by admin 10/11/01 5:19:41 PM Reply	Answering my own question: (or maybe not) add disable-output-escaping="yes" to the xsl:text tag. At least, that's SUPPOSED to do what I want, but it isn't doing anything at all. :-( Regards, -scott anderson
Post #13,009 by CRConrad 10/11/01 5:25:38 PM Reply	< and > ... ?
Post #13,011 by admin 10/11/01 5:28:14 PM Reply	That's what I'm doing. Whether I disable the escaping or not, it comes out escaped. Regards, -scott anderson
Post #13,023 by CRConrad 10/11/01 5:51:38 PM Reply	I meant, in your input - but I guess... Scott: Whether I disable the escaping or not, it comes out escaped. ...that then it would just come out "`&lt;`", and so on. Sorry, haven't the fucking faintest, then. Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
Post #13,024 by admin 10/11/01 5:51:51 PM Reply	OK, really answering my own question: <a> <xsl:attribute name="href"> <xsl:value-of select="OBJECT_TYPE"/> </xsl:attribute> <xsl:value-of select="OBJECT_TYPE"/> </a> Gah, this is wordy crap. :-P Regards, -scott anderson
Post #13,027 by CRConrad 10/11/01 5:53:28 PM Reply	OK, guyze: Nobody ever call Pascal "verbose" again! :-)
Post #13,667 by tuberculosis 10/16/01 8:04:57 PM 8/21/07 6:13:35 AM Reply	My take on XSL is that its even more of a mind game than C++ in that, for the document processing crowd, its just a big puzzle you can use to while away days and days. My experiments with it have me convinced its not a practical mechamism.
Post #13,729 by admin 10/17/01 9:23:40 AM Reply	Same here, after working through some demos It took me twice as much XSL code as template code to implement less functionality. Pretty nasty stuff. Regards, -scott anderson

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