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Please help!! JavaScript XSL combine

Hi,

I have a JavaScript function which is embeded in an XSL file, I am using this to try and bring back a list of strings based on a number of rows in an XML file.

The problem I have is that I do not have the url of the XML file as this is created on the fly so I cannot load this in to look at the specific nodes of the file.

I am therefore trying to get some info from the XML file using an XSL tranformation in my javascript code. This works great, apart from one part of the code which I cannot get to use the variable "i". This is the part [@index=1] in the code below.

Code:

function Test()

{

        var xmlDoc = Navigator.CurrentXML;

        //xmlDoc.getElementsById("STAFF");

        var inputList = document.getElementsByTagName("select");

        docList="";

        for (var i = 0; i &lt; inputList.length; i++)

        {

        docList += "GroupSetAttendanceType?documentList="

+"<xsl:value-of select="Data/DataRow[@index=1]/ID" />&amp;attendanceTypeID=" 

+ inputList.item(i)[inputList.item(i).selectedIndex].value 

+ "&amp;attendanceTypeDesc=" 

+ inputList.item(i)[inputList.item(i).selectedIndex].text;

        }



        GetControl("TestLine").innerHTML = docList;

}

Instead of [@index=1] I want it to be [@index=i+1] and use the variable i to determine what row index to use in the code. When I try this however it just brings out a null value.

I have tried things such as trying to split the text

"<xsl:value-of select="Data/DataRow[@index=1]/ID" />"

into

"<xsl:value-of select="Data/DataRow[@index="
+(i+1)+
"]/ID" />"

but this brings up an error saying
"The XSL could not be parsed. The error is Name cannot begin with the '+' character, hexadecimal value 0x2B. Line 16, position 99."

Any help would be greatly appreacted as I am pulling my hair out trying to get this to work.

Many thanks,

Laurence

Your use of quotation is incorrect: you cannot nest double quotes within double quotes.

"This "won't" work"
"This \"will\" work, using 'escaping'"
"This 'will also' work, using apostrophes"

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndrewGSW (Post 1302455)

Your use of quotation is incorrect: you cannot nest double quotes within double quotes.

"This "won't" work"
"This \"will\" work, using 'escaping'"
"This 'will also' work, using apostrophes"

Great thanks for your help, I have tried this but with no luck, can you see if the either of the below are correct as these have both produced errors :(

Code:

"<xsl:value-of select=\"Data/DataRow[@index="+(i+1)+"]/ID\" />&attendanceTypeID="

and

Code:

"<xsl:value-of select='Data/DataRow[@index="+(i+1)+"]/ID' />&attendanceTypeID="

I'm guessing this

Code:

inputList.item(i)[inputList.item(i).selectedIndex].value

is probably wrong. If inputList is a SELECT then probably:

Code:

inputList[inputList.selectedIndex].value

// or..

inputList[i].value