> From: Andreas Schlegel [mailto:schlegelaw@xxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 10:12 AM
> Subject:  WITH-PARAM with node as argument?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to write a with-param statement with a node as 
> argument and 
> handle this node in a template. But I don't know if it is possible or 
> even what is the syntax.

Not to pick on you, but I can't count how many times people qualify possible
solutions with "I don't know if it is possible . . ." to which my answer is
"Why don't you just TRY IT??"  ;-)

Anyway:

> <xsl:call-template name="textfield">
>    <xsl:with-param name="label" 
> select="comp/attribute[@name='country']/@label"/>
>    <xsl:with-param name="name" 
> select="comp/attribute[@name='country']/@name"/>
>    <xsl:with-param name="size" 
> select="comp/attribute[@name='country']/@size"/>
>    <xsl:with-param name="value" 
> select="comp/attribute[@name='country']/@value"/>
> </xsl:call-template>

You could reduce this to:

<xsl:call-template name="textfield">
  <xsl:with-param name="country" select="comp/attribute[@name='country']"/>
</xsl:call-template>

This will pass in a single param, country, as a node-set.  Then your
template could be rewritten as:

<xsl:template name="textfield">
  <xsl:param name="country"/>
  <tr>
    <th align="left"><xsl:value-of select="$country/@label"/></th>
    <td align="left" colspan="1">
    	<input type="text" name="{$country/@name}" size="{$country/@size}"
value="{$country/@value}"/>
    </td>
  </tr>
</xsl:template>

Note the use of attribute value templates in the <input> tag to replace your
cumbersome xsl:element/xsl:attribute code.

hth,
b.

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