How to concat a string to xsl:value-of select="...?

xslt xpath
Hanumanth picture Hanumanth · May 1, 2012 · Viewed 274.5k times · Source 
<a>
    <xsl:attribute name="href"> 
     <xsl:value-of select="/*/properties/property[@name='report']/@value" />
    </xsl:attribute>
</a>

Is there any way to cancat another string to

<xsl:value-of select="/*/properties/property[@name='report']/@value"  />

I need to pass some text to href attribute in addition to the report property value

Answer

Tim C picture Tim C · May 1, 2012

You can use the rather sensibly named xpath function called concat here

<a>
   <xsl:attribute name="href">
      <xsl:value-of select="concat('myText:', /*/properties/property[@name='report']/@value)" />
   </xsl:attribute>
</a>

Of course, it doesn't have to be text here, it can be another xpath expression to select an element or attribute. And you can have any number of arguments in the concat expression.

Do note, you can make use of Attribute Value Templates (represented by the curly braces) here to simplify your expression

<a href="{concat('myText:', /*/properties/property[@name='report']/@value)}"></a>

Related questions

xpath find if node exists

Using a xpath query how do you find if a node (tag) exists at all? For example if I needed to make sure a website page has the correct basic structure like /html/body and /html/head/title

Read More
XSLT string replace

I don't really know XSL but I need to fix this code, I have reduced it to make it simpler. I am getting this error Invalid XSLT/XPath function on this line <xsl:variable name="text" select="replace($text,…

Read More
XPath with multiple conditions

What XPath can I use to select any category with a name attribute specified and any child node author with the value specified. I've tried different variations of the path below with no success: //quotes/category[@name='Sport' and author="…

Read More