XSL - creating drop down list

[MrPeds]

Hi,

I'm a newbie to XSL, so was hoping that somebody could easily see the answer to this:

I am trying to write an XSL style sheet to build an html dropdown list. The list contains simple name-value pairs. The only extra requirement i have is to set one of the options to be 'selected' based on an attribute further up the tree.

this is the xml fragment:

<MetricGroup>

<MetricTargets SelectedMetric="26">

<MetricTarget>
<MetricTargetID>25</MetricTargetID>
<Name>100M</Name>
</MetricTarget>

<MetricTarget>
<MetricTargetID>26</MetricTargetID>
<Name>50M</Name>
</MetricTarget>

</MetricTargets>

</MetricGroup>

As you can see, there are two MetricTargets that I want to list in my drop down. I want to set the 2nd dropdown to be selected. This is my XSL code:

<xsl:element name="Select">
<xsl:attribute name="id">myDropDown</xsl:attribute>

<xsl:for-each select="MetricGroup/MetricTargets/MetricTarget">

<xsl:element name="Option">
<xsl:attribute name="value">
<xsl:value-of select="MetricTargetID"/>
</xsl:attribute>
<xsl:value-of select="Name"/>

<xsl:if test="MetricTargetID = ../@SelectedMetric">
<xsl:attribute name="selected"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:element>

</xsl:for-each>


</xsl:element>

I am stuck with how to compare the value of the MetricTargetID to the value of the SelectedMetric attribute. I know I need to use an IF statement to compare them, but I am unsure of how to get the SelectedMetric based on the current context.

Any ideas are appreciated.

MrPeds

 

[tsuji]

><xsl:attribute name="selected"/>
[tt]<xsl:attribute name="selected"><xsl:value-of select="'selected'" /></xsl:attribute>[/tt]

 

[MrPeds]

Thanks for that.

Another solution to this which i implemented was to set up a variable that held the SelectedMetricID and tested if the MetricTargetID equalled the variable.

If the two were equal then i set the attribute.

regards,

MrPeds

 

[tsuji]

But the main thing is that the selected attribute has to be set as shown, not empty tag.