Question

Is there’s a way to print the variable in the element as an attribute?

sample xml:

<list>
<name>John Doe</name>
<name>Paul Niel</name>
<name>Luke Dee</name>
</list>

Here’s my sample xslt;

<xsl:variable name="isDisabled">
    <xsl:if test="name='John Doe'">
        <xsl:attribute name="disabled">disabled</xsl:attribute>
    </xsl:if>
</xsl:variable>

and I want to print the isDisabled varible like this;

<input id="textName" name="name" type="text" {$isDisabled} />

output;

<input id="textName" name="name" type="text" disabled="disabled" />

Answer 1

You don’t need any variable to accomplish this task.

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

 <xsl:template match="name[. = 'John Doe']">
  <input id="textName" name="name" type="text" disabled="disabled" />
 </xsl:template>
 <xsl:template match="text()"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

When this transformation is applied on the provided XML document:

<list>
    <name>John Doe</name>
    <name>Paul Niel</name>
    <name>Luke Dee</name>
</list>

the wanted, correct result is produced:

<input id="textName" name="name" type="text" disabled="disabled"/>

Explanation:

Proper use of templates and template pattern matching.

Note: If you have a case (not this one) where it is really necessary to use a variable to create an attribute, this can be done in the following way:

<input id="textName" name="name" type="text" disabled="{$isDisabled}"/>

Explanation:

Proper use of AVT (Attribute Value Templates)