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- digroppe
- 04 Oct 10, 7:27 pm
- Comment #1

I’ve got a little problem. I don’t know how to output the handle of entry in a xsl:choose tag. I tried a lot of combinations but nothing worked.

I want to replace the entry (or handle) of an select field in the output by an img source.

How do i do this?

I need help :)

- phoque
- 04 Oct 10, 7:38 pm
- Comment #2

Can you re-post your XML, XSLT and the desired result using the code markup?

- digroppe
- 04 Oct 10, 7:59 pm
- Comment #3

<xsl:template match="/">

        <xsl:apply-templates select="/data/albums/entry"/>

</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="albums/entry">

<xsl:value-of select="streetdate "/>
<xsl:value-of select="artist "/>
<xsl:value-of select="albumtitle "/>
<xsl:value-of select="genre "/>

/* selectfield - values are "german", "french", "uk", "usa" and so on */

<xsl:value-of select="language "/>

/* I want to replace the values by <img src=""> - maybe somethin like this*/

<xsl:choose>
 <xsl:when test="??? ='german'">
  <img src="image1.png">
 </xsl:when>
 <xsl:when test="??? ='french'">
  <img src="image2.png">
 </xsl:when>
 <xsl:when test="??? ='uk'">
  <img src="image3.png">
 </xsl:when>
 <xsl:otherwise>
  <img src="noimage.png">
 </xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>

</xsl:template>

- digroppe
- 04 Oct 10, 8:00 pm
- Comment #4

Is this possible?

- phoque
- 04 Oct 10, 8:44 pm
- Comment #5

Yes, of course:

<xsl:template match="/">
  <xsl:apply-templates select="/data/albums/entry"/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="albums/entry">
  <xsl:value-of select="streetdate "/>
  <xsl:value-of select="artist "/>
  <xsl:value-of select="albumtitle "/>
  <xsl:value-of select="genre "/>
  <xsl:value-of select="language "/>

  <img>
    <xsl:attribute name="src">
        <xsl:choose>
         <xsl:when test="language/@handle = 'german'">image1.png</xsl:when>
         <xsl:when test="language/@handle = 'french'">image2.png</xsl:when>
         <xsl:when test="language/@handle = 'uk'">image3.png</xsl:when>
         <xsl:otherwise>noimage.png</xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>
    </xsl:attribute>
  </img>
</xsl:template>

Note that I’ve rewritten the xsl:choose-bit a little bit. It’s now making use of xsl:attribute.

- digroppe
- 04 Oct 10, 9:13 pm
- Comment #6

For any reason it doesn’t work. The xsl:choose shows only the xsl:otherwise.

I controlled the handles of the language entry in phpmyadmin, but everything seems to be okay.

The xsl:value-of select=”language” shows the values and handles correctly.

- digroppe
- 04 Oct 10, 9:23 pm
- Comment #7

Okay, i found the error.

Because the handle is inserted into an item tag (selectfield) i had to add *xsl:when test=”language/item/@handle = ‘german’”>

Symphony.