Adding attribute to HTML output with XSLT

[drhowarddrfine]

I have this in an XSLT stylesheet sitting in a browser:

<xsl:variable name="name" select="@name" />
     <xsl:variable name="input-type" select="@input" />
     <xsl:value-of select="title" />
      <xsl:for-each select="item">
          <input type="{$input-type}"
           name="{$name}" value="{@value}" />
           <xsl:value-of select="."/>
      </xsl:for-each>
 

This all works fine but I need to have a "checked" attribute conditionally inserted before the closing tag based on xml sent from the server tagged as

<item value="stuff" checked="checked"></item>

The inserted attribute should be "checked" and not 'checked=""'. I've not worked with my XML stuff for a while and I just can't recall how to do this.

[Dormilich]

checked (with no value) is an invalid attribute in XML (therefore XSLT won’t write that in xml mode). either use checked="checked" (where the value is gracefully ignored) or try the html output option (not sure if it works, though).

[drhowarddrfine]

The xml comes down as 'checked="checked". I want the output of the xslt to be just "checked". The output is in the xhtml namespace.

EDIT: Oh, but that's XML, too. Have to think this through. I may have had it working without thinking about the standalone "checked".

[jkmyoung]

checked="true" or checked="" won't work for you?

<input ...>
  <xsl:if test="someCondition">
    <xsl:attribute name="checked">checked</xsl:attribute><!-- you can change value inside element if needed -->
  </xsl:if>
</input>

[Dormilich]

checked="true" or checked="" won't work for you?

XHTML requires it to be checked="checked". this goes for all HTML standalone attributes in XHTML.

[drhowarddrfine]

Now I know what I was forgetting. I didn't add the closing tag </input>

[Dormilich]

or just use the self closing tag

<input … />

via

<xsl:element name="input">
    <!-- further definitions -->
</xsl:element>