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Subject: RE: How to add a variable/changeable hyperlink <a href=" http:\\WWW....> around a text in XSL?
From: "John E. Simpson" <simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 22:54:19 -0500
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At 02:19 PM 3/15/99 -0800, Koh, Justin (Intern) wrote:
>Well let's say that the XML document is something like this
>
><profile number="1">
> <data>.....</data>
> <filename>datacycle.html</filename>
></profile>
>
><profile number="2">
> <data>.....</data>
> <filename>dataframe.html</filename>
></profile>
I added a <doc> container element, so the XML looks like this:
<doc>
<profile number="1">
<data>blahblah1</data>
<filename>datacycle.html</filename>
</profile>
<profile number="2">
<data>blahblah2</data>
<filename>dataframe.html</filename>
</profile>
</doc>
(You'd replace the <doc>s with whatever your own containing parent element
might be.)
Then I used this XSL:
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"
result-ns="">
<xsl:template match="doc">
<html><body><ul>
<xsl:for-each select="profile">
<li>Profile #<xsl:value-of select="@number"/>
<br/>
Data: <xsl:value-of select="data"/>
<br/>
Filename: <a href="{filename}"><xsl:value-of select="filename"/></a>
</li>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>
</body></html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
The operative portion of that is the line beginning "Filename:"; it plugs
the value of the filename element into both the href attribute AND the
content of the <a> tag. (Note that the occurrence of filename in the href
attribute is set off by curly braces, not simple parens.) I ran it through
XT-win using this command line:
xt testurl.xml testurl.xsl testurl.html
The HTML generated is:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<body>
<ul>
<li>Profile #1<br>
Data: blahblah1<br>
Filename: <a href="datacycle.html">datacycle.html</a>
</li>
<li>Profile #2<br>
Data: blahblah2<br>
Filename: <a href="dataframe.html">dataframe.html</a>
</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
Which displays like this:
o Profile #1
Data: blahblah1
Filename: datacycle.html
o Profile #2
Data: blahblah2
Filename: dataframe.html
(substituting lowercase "o" chars for the bullets that actually appear).
Both "datacycle.html" and "dataframe.html" appear as highlighted hyperlinks.
I imagine the same would work with IE5, as long as you include the doctype
declaration and so on in the document. The important thing though is that
you can get the filename to appear both as the value of an href= attribute
and as the content of the <a> element.
Btw, if you need to prefix the filename with a protocol, server, etc., make
the XSL look like this:
<a href="http://server/path/{filename}"><xsl:value-of select="filename"/></a>
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