doubt in href

[sethu rajan]

Respected sir,
I am working in java and xml. In my project, I have a situation to select a xml data using xsl within href but have lot of error messages yet.
I browse your web page but I am not clear about it. Please clear my doubt.
problem in : <a href="http://localhost:8080/test/servlet/WebShowMail?msno=<xsl:value-of select='message-no'/>&folder=inbox"><xsl:value-of select="from-id"/></a>
about it :WebShowMail -servlet to be connect .
:msno - parameter of servlet to be pass, which is a
xml data within the tag <message-no>
: I select that xml data by xsl using <xsl:value-of select='message-no'/>
:<xsl:value-of select="from-id"/> -data on which href link to be apply
error :'<' character can't be used in attribute value.
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Please clear my doubt
with hope,
sethu
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[Mapraputa Is]

First, <xsl:value-of> cannot be used in attribute values �as is�, there is a shorcut for it: {Xpath expression}. It means the same as <xsl:value-of select=� Xpath expression�>
Next, �&�� sign cannot appear in an attribute value, it has to be written as �&amp;�.
Suppose your XML is (for example! ):
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
<message-no>120</message-no>
<from-id>GPT20</from-id>
</root>
Then in your XSL stylesheet you should write
<a href="http://localhost:8080/test/servlet/WebShowMail?msno={root/message-no}&amp;folder=inbox">
<xsl:value-of select="root/from-id"/></a>
The output:
<a href="http://localhost:8080/test/servlet/WebShowMail?msno=120&folder=inbox">GPT20</a>