xslt: create link from name

[Felix Natter]

hi,

I have glossary-entries (<entry name="...">...</entry>) whose names
include 8bit-characters and spaces and each entry must be reachable by
(relative) html-links.

I want to avoid having to specify both a name and an id for linking
for each glossary term (if possible), so I'd like to generate links
(urls) from the names with some kind of algorithm.

I need (at least) a function that creates a valid url from a name
(i.e. "x y" => "x%20y").

thanks,

 

[Michael Hill]

I think you may be looking for <xsl:element> and/or <xsl:attribute> . look
at them.

Mike

 

[Felix Natter]

I think you may be looking for <xsl:element> and/or <xsl:attribute> . look
at them.

No, I'm looking for a function/algorithm/idea to convert i.e.
"this Topic" to "this%20topic" or similar. Without this function
I'd have to do this:

<entry name="Formular zurücksetzen" id="formularzuruecksetzen">
</entry>
<entry name="Faktura" id="faktura">
</entry>
...
and have some redundancy (@id) which is what I try to avoid. A
function like "url(@name)" (which would "urlify" @name, " "=>%20 etc.)
would be sufficient (if there's no better solution).

thanks in advance,

 

[FC]

I suppose that's the purpose of generate-id() function.
Have a look at it and see if it suits your needs.

Bye,
Flavio

 

[Felix Natter]

I suppose that's the purpose of generate-id() function.
Have a look at it and see if it suits your needs.

It won't work because it is not required that the ids
stay the same across stylesheet invocations (and for a glossary
the name-anchors need to stay the same)

From XSLT by Doug Tidwell:
"[...] All of tomorrow's calls to generate-id() will generate the same ID
but that ID might not be the one generated today."

 

[Felix Natter]

No, I'm looking for a function/algorithm/idea to convert i.e.
"this Topic" to "this%20topic" or similar. Without this function
I'd have to do this:

<entry name="Formular zurücksetzen" id="formularzuruecksetzen">
</entry>
<entry name="Faktura" id="faktura">
</entry>
...
and have some redundancy (@id) which is what I try to avoid. A
function like "url(@name)" (which would "urlify" @name, " "=>%20 etc.)
would be sufficient (if there's no better solution).

I found an extension which does this: encode-uri
(http://www.exslt.org/str/)

 

[Felix Natter]

I found an extension which does this: encode-uri
(http://www.exslt.org/str/)

Is there a better solution? It's a bit tedious to use
i.e. #Formular%20zur%C3%BCcksetzen as a link.

thanks,