[daisy] making URL out of field

[Todd Wells]

Thanks, that helps. The <a href line is not working as you specified.
Here is what I have in the document-style sheet.

<xsl:variable name="myVAR1" select="@valueFormatted"/>
<a href="concat('http://example.com/',$myVAR1/@valueFormatted) ">
   <xsl:value-of select="myVAR1"/>
</a>

When I look at a page using this styling, the link shows as
http://daisyserver/path/concat(%27http://%27,$myVAR1/@valueFormatted)

instead of http://example.com/xxxxx

The next line <xsl:value-of select="myVAR1"/> correctly displays the
value of myVAR1

How do you get the concat to be evaluated within the <a href?  I tried
using a <xsl  tag instead of the concat, but get an error saying you can
not use a < inside of an href.


-----Original Message-----
From: daisy-bounces at lists.cocoondev.org
[mailto:daisy-bounces at lists.cocoondev.org] On Behalf Of Karel Vervaeke
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 12:07 AM
To: Daisy: open source CMS - general mailinglist
Subject: Re: [daisy] making URL out of field

If I understand your question correctly, you need to create a
document-styling for your custom document type (see the documentation
for that)

To generate the url, do something like this:

<xsl:variable name="myField"
select="d:fields/d:field[@name='MyField']"/>

<a href="concat('http://example.com/foo/bar/',
$myField/@valueFormatted)">click here</a>

(or replace 'click here' with an xsl:value-of
select="$myfield/@valueFormatted")

HTH,
Karel

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 11:42 -0700, Todd Wells wrote:
> I have a custom document  type with several text fields.   I would
> like to make a link in the document using the value in a text field as
> part of the URL.
> 
>  
> 
> What is the best way to approach this?  
> 
> 
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