Hyperlink embedded in XSL

[penguinguy123]

Hello,
Sorry fro the newbie question, but I can't seem to figure this one out.

I need to create a hyperlink from a series of "value-of selects" and build up the text with some static values to create a link similar to:

ftp://userid:[e-mail]/dir1/dir2/MyFileName_PDF.indd_O_17936_20097.pdf

the "_0_" , "_" (between serises of numbers) & the ".pdf" are static text. The rest is picked up from a select query. I can generate the static text and output fine, but I can not figure out how to create a hyperlink that says "Click here to download your file" that links to the string of static text and xsl values.

Any ideas?



here is the XSL template being used to generate static text output:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"><xsl:output method="html" /><xsl:template match="/">
 
Dear <xsl:value-of select="//Sqls/CustomerName/Row/FirstName" /> <xsl:value-of select="//Sqls/CustomerName/Row/LastName" />,<br/><br/>
 
Thank you for your order. Your Files are ready to download.<br/><br/> 
 
ftp://userid:[e-mail]//Output/MyDocs/<xsl:value-of select="//Sqls/OrderProductList_ABC_ftp/Row/Name"/>_O_<xsl:value-of select="//Sqls/Order/Row/EncryptedOrderId"/>_<xsl:value-of select="//Sqls/OrderProductList_ABC_ftp/Row/OrderProductId"/>.pdf
 
 
 
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Thanks for any help you can lend!

[dorinbogdan]

Welcome to TheScripts TSDN...

Since the result is HTML, you can use the anchor <a> tag to build the desired output, like this example:
[html]<a href='http://www.yahoo.com'>Any text here</a>[/html]

[penguinguy123]

Thanks for the advice.

I can get the href to create a link if the text is static (http://www.yahoo.com), bu tif I need to insert dynamic text like (<xsl:value-of select="//Sqls/OrderProductList_ASN_ftp/Row/Name"/>) I can not ge the output to function. If I do not enclose the select in a hyperlink it works fine.

Any ideas???

[dorinbogdan]

Use a local variable to save the dynamic Url and then pass it to the href attribute.
Like this:
[html]<xsl:variable name='urlString' select="//Sqls/OrderProductList_ASN_ftp/Row/Name" />
<a href="$urlString">some text here</a>
[/html]

If the select query returns more than one nodes, I'm not sure if the variable can hold an array. If it doesn't, try to use a for-each loop to select one node at a time in the variable.