xsl template for option selected drop-down box

This is incorrect:

<OPTION SELECTED "" value="{week}">

all attributes must be quoted.  So do it like:

<OPTION SELECTED="SELECTED' "" value="{week}">

But in y our case, you are building the <OPTION> elements from the XML, right?  So you have a parameter set, called "pSelectedWeek" that you can use to test.  Something like:

<td><select name="event-week">
<!-- not sure exactly what you want to do here...a select for all events, or only for unique weeks? -->
<xsl:for-each select="event">
  <OPTION value="{event-week}">
    <xsl:if test="$pSelectWeek = current()/event-week">
     <xsl:attribute name="SELECTED">SELECTED</xsl:attribute>
    </xsl:if>
    <xsl:value-of select="event-week"/>
  </OPTION>
</xsl:for-each>
</select></td>


By the way, current coding standards use lower case for HTML...

Regards,
Mike Sharp

Hi Mike,
I have an update record form. What happen is, a user would select a specific record that they would like to update. Then it would call the update record form. The update record form, would grab the data from the xml tree structure for that specific record.  The xml tree structure would only have one event:
<root>
     <event>
         <event-id>1</event-id>
         <event-title>welcome title</event-title>
         <event-day>1</event-day>
         <event-week>3</event-week>
    </event>

Since this event is on day 1 week 3, the drop-down box on the update form would have the selected value on week 3, and the drop-down box for day would have the selected value on day 1. I'm not generating the option values based from the xml. I want the drop-down box to display the value that match the xml data. And the drop-down box is manually created through html, something like this:

<OPTION>Week</OPTION>
<OPTION value="1">1</OPTION>
<OPTION value="2">2</OPTION>
<OPTION value="3">3</OPTION>
<OPTION value="4">4</OPTION>
<OPTION value="5">5</OPTION>

Thanks!!

Hi Mike,

Can you please show me how to create a separate named-template and use xsl:call-template to check and output the attribute.

Thanks!

Given this XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="selectboxoption.xslt"?>
<root>
    <event>
        <event-id>1</event-id>
        <event-title>welcome title</event-title>
        <event-day>1</event-day>
        <event-week>3</event-week>
    </event>
</root>

This XSLT:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="html" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
    <xsl:template name="tCounter">
        <xsl:param name="pCounter"/>
        <option value="{$pCounter}">
            <xsl:if test="event/event-week = $pCounter">
                <xsl:attribute name="selected">selected</xsl:attribute>
            </xsl:if>
            <xsl:value-of select="$pCounter"/>
        </option>
        <xsl:if test="$pCounter &lt; 5">
            <xsl:call-template name="tCounter">
                <xsl:with-param name="pCounter" select="$pCounter + 1"/>
            </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:if>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="root">
        <select name="event-week">
            <option>Week</option>
            <xsl:call-template name="tCounter">
                <xsl:with-param name="pCounter" select="1"/>
            </xsl:call-template>
        </select>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

produces this output:

<select name="event-week"><option>Week</option>
<option value="1">1</option>
<option value="2">2</option>
<option value="3" selected>3</option>
<option value="4">4</option>
<option value="5">5</option></select>

Notice that using:

    <xsl:output method="html"/>

causes the selected="selected" attribute to be modified on output to conform with HTML 3.2.

Regards,
Mike Sharp

Thanks a lot Mike!! Greatly appreciate your help.