> Christopher Brown wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I want to use the XML/XSLT function to create a custom tag that will extend the
>functionality of the <select> tag. What I want to do is have a tag
> like the following:
>
> <extended:select name="some_name" size="1">
> some_sql_statement
> </extended:select>
>
> The idea is that the some_sql_statement will populate the option(s) for the select
>tag. Seems straight forward right?
>
> I have been able to get it to work if some_sql_statement does not require
>interpretation, i.e. if some_sql_statement is a literal. I cannot get it
> working if I want to include a variable or a reference in some_sql_statement. In
>other words, this works
>
> SELECT col_1 from table
>
> but this does not:
>
> SELECT $Session->{column} FROM table
>
You could do:
<extended:select name="some_name" size="1">
SELECT <%= $Session->{column} %> FROM table
</extended:select>
The content in an XMLSubs tag is evaluated as normal ASP
before being passed to the subroutine, so you could have
more XMLSubs evaluated therein as well as ASP code blocks.
--Josh
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