Question

Is there a way to use just one way of using a variable within XSLT?

For example:

<xsl:variable name="myvar" select="title" />

Which selects the title from my xml, then I would like to use it within the template:

<h2 title="{$myvar}">{$myvar}</h2>

However it only shows the title attribute.
And when I do it like this:

<h2 title="<xsl:value-of select='$myvar'>"><xsl:value-of select='$myvar'></h2>

It only works the other way around.

So my question:

Is there one way that works for both attribute and content?

Answer 1

Yes, you can avoid AVT:

<h2>
 <xsl:attribute name="title">
  <xsl:value-of select=$myvar/>
 </xsl:attribute>
 <xsl:value-of select=$myvar/>
</h2>

But I think it’s simpler using AVT and xsl:value-of properly:

<h2 title="{$myvar}">
 <xsl:value-of select=$myvar/>
</h2>