Hi, I'm trying to transform the values entered into a form:
HTML:
<div id="container">
<div id="bs">
<input id="name" type="text"/>
<p>PPPPP</p>
<a href="#" onclick="return transform()">Do it!</a>
</div>
</div>
XSLT:
<xsl:template match="/">
<strong><xsl:value-of select="//input[@type='text']/@value"/></
strong>
--><xsl:value-of select="//p/text()"/>
</xsl:template>
Java Script:
function transform() {
....
xmlDoc = document.implementation.createDocument("", "", null);
xmlRef = document.getElementById('bs');
var clone = xmlDoc.importNode(xmlRef,true);
xmlDoc.appendChild(clone);
var fragment = xsltProcessor.transformToFragment(xmlDoc, document);
document.getElementById("container").innerHTML = "";
document.getElementById("container").appendChild(f ragment);
....
}
The <pelement gets transformed, but not the input element.
..
Now, I understand that I can pull the values out of the form with Java
Script and simply change the XPath expression to a XSLT param, but why
can't the transformation pull the values directly?
<input type="text" value="grr!"/will transform. Is the tree
structure for these two different? Humm, now that I think about it
document.getElementById('name').value
returns the value, whereas
document.getElementById('name').getAttribute('valu e')
returns null
Any explanations? Is it not possible to transform user supplied values
for input elements without passing the values into the style sheet as
parameters?
