dynamic paramaters in a <table> html tag?

[bjam]

Hi, I am trying to do the following, which is to have a single place to
define my table paramaters such as cellpadding / cellspacing etc.
Below is the code I am trying to achieve see the cell spacing element
in the table html tag below. Thanks in advance for any help you can
provide. I really appreciate it.

This is currently not working as I can't have an xsl:value-of select
inside of the table tag itself... does anyone have any ideas on this?
Thanks in advance for your help with this.

<!-- get table stats-->
<xsl:call-template name='get_summary_table_specs'/>
<!-- open the table for the summary of passed items -->
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="<xsl:value-of select =
/xmltable[@spacing][text()]\>" bgcolor="lightblue" width="50%">
!-- import the data output template for displaying each row of resutls
-->
<xsl:template name="get_summary_table_specs">
<xmltable padding="5"/>
<xmltable spacing="5"/>
</xsl:template>

[David Carlisle]

an xslt stylesheet has to be well formed XML.

<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="{
/xmltable[@spacing][text()]}" bgcolor="lightblue" width="50%">

google for "attribute value template" for the {} syntax

david

[bjam]

Thanks for this david, your the best, this helps a lot. I also found
another way to do it using xsl:attribute which also works and seems
very clean.