XSL question 1

[greedyzebra]

I'm wanting to turn an xml document into a form page and am wondering how I can apply a default value to a text input field.

Here's how I would do this in HTML:
<input type="text" value="My Default Value">

When displayed in a browser, a text input field would appear with "My Default Value" as the default value.

I can create a text input field with my xsl style sheet like so:

<td><INPUT TYPE="text"/></td>

However I run into problems trying to set the "value" with <xsl:value-of select="XML_TAG_CONTAINING_DEFAULT_DATA"/> as this is meaningless within the HTML tag.

Is there some sort of escape mechanism (escape character) to assign such a value within the HTML tag? Is there any way to do this?

Thanks. If this doesn't make sense, please tell me so I can clarify further.

 

[dwarfthrower]

You'll find things a little more robust if you build your HTML using a combination of the <xsl:element> and <xsl:attribute> tags.

<xsl:element name="input">
 <xsl:attribute name="type">text</xsl:attribute>
 <xsl:attribute name="value">
  <xsl:value-of select="XML_TAG_CONTAINING_DEFAULT_DATA" />
 </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>

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