Question

So i have some style content saved in the node @style and i want to call it to form the style attribute of the <span> tag. it is also insufficient, so i want to append the margin-left:700px as part of the style attribute for the <span> tag. is this do-able?

by the way, i cannot edit the database which the xsl is calling as it is provided by the client

<span style="<xsl:copy-of select="Root/Node/MyFile/MyStyle/@style" margin-left:700px">
    <xsl:copy-of select="Root/Node/MyFile/MyCaption/Caption"/>
</span>

Btw, i tried the above and Altova complains that the Character < from <xsl... is grammatically unexpected.

Answer 1

Your quotes are probably screwing up the XSLT, try this:

<span>
    <xsl:attribute name="style">
      <xsl:copy-of select="Root/Node/MyFile/MyStyle/@style" />
      <xsl:text> margin-left:700px</xsl:Text>
    </xsl:attribute>

    <xsl:copy-of select="Root/Node/MyFile/MyCaption/Caption"/>
</span>

I cant test it at the moment though…