XML > HTML, outputting into quotes?

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July 8th, 2003, 05:22 AM

neobuddah

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XML > HTML, outputting into quotes?

Hi people.

I'm new to the whole XML/XSL lark, coming from a HTML/PHP/MySQL background.

I'm having fun creating an application that currently uses IE's built-in parsing engine, but i've hit a problem.

How do I translate an attribute from XML to HTML?

Such as the following...

Code:

<!-- xml file -->
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<base>
  <item id="1" />
  <item id="2" />
  <!-- etc -->
</base>

<!-- xsl file -->
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:for-each select="item">
    <ul>
      <li id="<xsl:value-of select="@id" />"><xsl:value-of select="@id" />
    </ul>
  </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

I'm sure someone's come across this before, but none of the tutorials i've come across have mentioned anything to do with this.

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July 8th, 2003, 05:37 AM

Wizard2003

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Try the following:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl

utput method="html" indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
<HTML>
<BODY>
<xsl:for-each select="base/item">
<ul>
<li id="{@id}"/><xsl:value-of select="@id"/>
</ul>
</xsl:for-each>
</BODY>
</HTML>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

July 8th, 2003, 05:40 AM