You're crying out for XSLT 2.0 and stylesheet functions.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frans Englich [mailto:frans.englich@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 09 February 2005 19:11
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Combining call-template with attribute value templates
> 
> 
> I find the following code XSLT code clumsy:
> 
>            <xsl:variable name="resultPath">
>                 <xsl:call-template name="fullName" />
>             </xsl:variable>
> 
>             <a href="{str:encode-uri(concat( 'http://example.com/',
>                 $resultPath, r:testee/r:name ))}" >
>                 <xsl:value-of select="r:testee/r:name"/>
>             </a>
> 
> In other words, I dynamically create the href attribute with 
> an attribute 
> value template, which among other things contains the return 
> value of the 
> fullName template. 
> 
> What I found clumsy, is that the only reason I use the 
> xsl:variable is that I 
> can't squeeze in the template call into the attr val 
> template. Or how is this 
> possible?
> 
> Another way could be to use an xsl:attribute construct:
> 
> <a>
> 	<xsl:attribute name="href">
> 		http://example.com/
> 		<xsl:call-template name="fullName" />
> 		<xsl:value-of select="r:testee/r:name" />
> 	</xsl:attribute>
> </a>
> 
> I find it a /bit/ cleaner, but it has one big problem: the 
> content isn't run 
> through str:encode-uri().
> 
> Any ideas? How would you write my initial code snippet in the 
> cleanest, most 
> beautiful way while staying functionally equivalent?
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 		Frans