output syntax problem

[Bill Sneddon]

Can any one tell me how to output the following string?

<%response.write "<tr><td><a href=""file://SERVER/mmlogs/TNAME" &
yearmonth & """>"& "MYJUNK" & "</a><BR></td></tr>" %>

<xsl:variable name="SERVER" select="MM_NAME" />
<xsl:variable name="TNAME" select="TOOL_NAME" />

I would want SERVER,TNAME and MYJUNK filled in at transform time.

I am using Python PYANA ver .8 (which is XLAN) to create the transform.
I have spent a lot of time messing around with this to no good end.

[Derek Harmon]

"Bill Sneddon" <bs******@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:bd**********@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com...

<%response.write "<tr><td><a href=""file://SERVER/mmlogs/TNAME" &
yearmonth & """>"& "MYJUNK" & "</a><BR></td></tr>" %>
In your XSLT stylesheet (Python-irrelevant) you'd have the following in an
xsl:template (whitespace/indentation added for readability), and you would
pass yearmonth (and any other Python variables) to the stylesheet as
parameters,

<![CDATA[<%response.write "]]>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="file://{$SERVER}/mmlogs/{$TNAME}{$YEARMONTH}" >
<xsl:value-of select="$MYJUNK" />
</a>
<br/>
</td>
</tr>
%>

Both parameters and variables can be referenced within your stylesheet's
templates with $PARAM_OR_VARIABLE_NAME. They can be injected
into quoted text (ie, attribute values) by enclosing the parameter or variable
reference in curly braces, as shown above.
I have spent a lot of time messing around with this to no good end.

A few pointers if you'll be modifying the stylesheet to accept global
parameters is that it requires <xsl:param name="YEARMONTH" />
(etc.) tags as the immediate children of the opening <xsl:stylesheet ...>
tag. Then your Python environment should offer a means for passing
arguments to the stylesheet before kicking off the Transform process.

Look for overloaded methods that take a list of arguments in the
documentation, and pass the Python variables you're using like
yearmonth to the stylesheet beforehand.

If yearmonth is a JSP or other after-the-fact variable identifier that you
don't have at transformation time, then what else you might try is to
set the xsl:output mode to text and do something literal with CDATA
sections in the stylesheet, like (newlines added for readability):

<!-- . . . -->
<xsl:text>&lt;a href='file://</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$SERVER"/>
<xsl:text>/mmlogs/</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$TNAME"/>
<xsl:text>" & yearmonth & "'"></xsl:text>
<!-- . . . -->

Notice I took advantage of HTML's allowance for either single-quote
or double-quotes, having runs of """ can be problematic.
HTH,

Derek Harmon

[Bill Sneddon]

Thanks Derek,

I was able to make this work by changing the output to text and
and escaping all of my <> in my html tags.
It is NOT pretty but it works.

I did some reading but was unable to figure out how to make the output
be & < > inside a html output file.

What I would like is the behavior of <xsl:output method='text'/> locally
within a file.

It seem that the <xsl:output method='xml|html|text'/> is a top level
element. So I works for the whole transform. I would like to switch
between output methods in a transform where it make the XSL more
readable for me. Is there a way to do this?

If not, I wonder if it is being concidered for XSL 2.x or beyond
Bill
Derek Harmon wrote:

"Bill Sneddon" <bs******@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:bd**********@ngspool-d02.news.aol.com...

<%response.write "<tr><td><a href=""file://SERVER/mmlogs/TNAME" &
yearmonth & """>"& "MYJUNK" & "</a><BR></td></tr>" %>

In your XSLT stylesheet (Python-irrelevant) you'd have the following in an
xsl:template (whitespace/indentation added for readability), and you would
pass yearmonth (and any other Python variables) to the stylesheet as
parameters,

<![CDATA[<%response.write "]]>
<tr>
<td>
<a href="file://{$SERVER}/mmlogs/{$TNAME}{$YEARMONTH}" >
<xsl:value-of select="$MYJUNK" />
</a>
<br/>
</td>
</tr>
%>

Both parameters and variables can be referenced within your stylesheet's
templates with $PARAM_OR_VARIABLE_NAME. They can be injected
into quoted text (ie, attribute values) by enclosing the parameter or variable
reference in curly braces, as shown above.

I have spent a lot of time messing around with this to no good end.

A few pointers if you'll be modifying the stylesheet to accept global
parameters is that it requires <xsl:param name="YEARMONTH" />
(etc.) tags as the immediate children of the opening <xsl:stylesheet ...>
tag. Then your Python environment should offer a means for passing
arguments to the stylesheet before kicking off the Transform process.

Look for overloaded methods that take a list of arguments in the
documentation, and pass the Python variables you're using like
yearmonth to the stylesheet beforehand.

If yearmonth is a JSP or other after-the-fact variable identifier that you
don't have at transformation time, then what else you might try is to
set the xsl:output mode to text and do something literal with CDATA
sections in the stylesheet, like (newlines added for readability):

<!-- . . . -->
<xsl:text>&lt;a href='file://</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$SERVER"/>
<xsl:text>/mmlogs/</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$TNAME"/>
<xsl:text>" & yearmonth & "'"></xsl:text>
<!-- . . . -->

Notice I took advantage of HTML's allowance for either single-quote
or double-quotes, having runs of """ can be problematic.
HTH,

Derek Harmon