Is there a simple way to represent quotation marks in a xsl-stylesheet?

Question

I want to output an XML File. In this XML File there is a tag with attribute-content inside quotation marks. How do i have to alter the XSL-Stylesheet to accomplish this?

I didn't find any other entry here that solves this problem. How do I create the quotation marks before and after the xsl:value-of?

<xsl:for-each select="INPUTDOC/STRUCTURE">
    <xmlelement attribute="<xsl:value-of select="INPUT"/>"/>
</xsl:for-each>

XML-Output should look like this (For every STRUCTURE-Element)

<xmlelement attribute="123456"/>

123456 being an example Input

ophychius · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-07T07:55:18.360

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That is not how you would use the value-of, or how to define an attribute on an element using xslt. Try the following:

<xsl:for-each select="INPUTDOC/STRUCTURE">
    <xmlelement>
       <xsl:attribute name="[attributename]">
           <xsl:value-of select="INPUT"/>
       </xsl:attribute>
    </xmlelement>
</xsl:for-each>

Another and probably easier option is to use an attribute value template, as mentioned by Tim C in the comments. That way your code would look like this:

<xsl:for-each select="INPUTDOC/STRUCTURE">
    <xmlelement attribute="{INTPUT}"/>
</xsl:for-each>

edited Feb 07 '19 at 07:55

answered Feb 06 '19 at 13:34

ophychius

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Thanks, i'm new to XSLT so i didn't know about "xsl:attribute" – rialisuw Feb 06 '19 at 13:46
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There is an even easier way. You can also simply do ``. The curly braces are known as "Attribute Value Templates" and indicate the expression inside should be evaluated rather than output literally. – Tim C Feb 06 '19 at 13:50
Thanks @TimC I was not aware of those. I will add that to the answer. – ophychius Feb 07 '19 at 07:52
Note that it can lead to issues if your element names start with XML – Kevin Brown Feb 07 '19 at 17:28

Is there a simple way to represent quotation marks in a xsl-stylesheet?

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