The attribute template syntax is {$source}. You probably confused the syntax
with Ant's.
-- Frank Weiss
Bennett wrote:
> Hello Joseph,
>
> Sorry to bug you again. If there's any chance of help I've tried calling an
> image in with xslt and I can't get it to work.
>
> Here are the files I have:
>
> image.xml:
> ---------------------------------------
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="image.xsl" ?>
> <!-- Here, I want to figure out the best way to get an image from xml -->
>
> <images>
> <image>
> <filename>image.jpg</filename>
> </image>
> </images>
> ---------------------------------------
>
> image.xsl:
> ---------------------------------------
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> version="1.0">
> <xsl:output method="html" indent="yes"/>
>
> <xsl:variable name="source">
> <xsl:value-of select="./filename" />
> </xsl:variable>
>
> <xsl:template match="images">
> <html>
> <body>
> <xsl:apply-templates/>
> </body>
> </html>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="//image">
> Before Image
> <img src="${source}" width="50" height="50" border="1" /> After Image
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> ---------------------------------------
>
> When I view this in Netscape 6.2, it appears that the image is being created
> but the variable source is not evaluating (I get the text before and after
> the html <img> tag and the border of the image but no image).
>
> I tried calling the image in using <img src="$source" width="50" height="50"
> border="1" /> (no curly braces) but to no avail.
>
> Could please help me this just so I can get started?
>
> Thank you so much,
> Bennett
>
> On Thursday, July 18, 2002, at 12:26 PM, Joseph Kesselman wrote:
>
> Uhm. We should keep this on the mailing list. (I meant to send my
> response to the list; apologies if I sent it only to you by accident.)
>
> > I'm not quite sure I'm clear on the difference that you're stating
> > here. Are you trying to say if the answer is " the image is part of
> your style
> > use CSS but if it's part of your content use XSLT or something
> different?
>
> No. I'm just pointing out that images may be part of your document
> content (a photo of a product in an electronic catalog, for example), or part
> of your style (eg a company logo which appears on every page of the catalog).
>
> > Do you know of any examples of the how to handle the difference
> between the two
> > scenarios?
>
> If I had examples handy, I would have cited them.
>
> > Is there a way to do this with XSLT 1.0? If so, could you provide an
> > example if I were to define a tag called <image>?
>
> XSLT 1.0 is not aware of schema datatypes. But if you define a tag
> called <image> you can certainly write a stylesheet which matches on that
> tagname and processess it appropriately... it's just your responsibility to
> keep your document design and your stylesheet in synch.
>
> ______________________________________
> Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
