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Alexis Wilke
Alexis Wilke

Reputation: 20725

XLST 2.0 copy-of adding the data as an attribute?

I am creating a table with one entry that looks like the following in XSLT 2.0:

<td class="brand">
  <a href="{basic/@brand}" title="View {basic/@brand_name} information">
    <xsl:copy-of select="basic/@brand_name"/>
  </a>
</td>

It seems to be correct to me... but the resulting HTML looks like this:

<td class="brand">
  <a href="path-to-brand/brand/123" brand_name="Coca-Cola" title="View Coca-Cola information"></a>
</td>

As we can see, the brand name was added as an attribute with the value of the attribute just like in the title.

What I was expecting is this:

<td class="brand">
  <a href="path-to-brand/brand/123" title="View Coca-Cola information">Coca-Cola</a>
</td>

Is there something I'm doing wrong or is Qt that bogus?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 31

Answers (2)

helderdarocha
helderdarocha

Reputation: 23637

You mixed copy-of which copies entire node-sets to the result tree with value-of which copies the string-value of the node. It will work if you replace:

<xsl:copy-of select="basic/@brand_name"/>

with

<xsl:value-of select="basic/@brand_name"/>

Upvotes: 1

Pawel
Pawel

Reputation: 31610

copy-of copies the entire attribute and since it still can it appends it to the element. Since you want just to write the value you should use 

<xsl:value-of select="basic/@brand_name"/>

Upvotes: 2

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