xslt input control not setting base on data

February 3, 2022

I have this data that is being used with this xslt file that I can’t get the Selected true to set the input radio to be checked. Is this the correct logic for checking test="Selected = true" to set that attribute?

Data

<CustomerGender>
      <CustomerGender>
        <Value>802</Value>
        <Text>Female</Text>
        <Selected>false</Selected>
      </CustomerGender>
      <CustomerGender>
        <Value>803</Value>
        <Text>Male</Text>
        <Selected>false</Selected>
      </CustomerGender>
      <CustomerGender>
        <Value>804</Value>
        <Text>Non-binary</Text>
        <Selected>true</Selected>
      </CustomerGender>
      <CustomerGender>
        <Value>805</Value>
        <Text>Prefer not to answer</Text>
        <Selected>false</Selected>
      </CustomerGender>
      <CustomerGender>
        <Value>806</Value>
        <Text>Other (please specify)</Text>
        <Selected>false</Selected>
      </CustomerGender>
    </CustomerGender>

XSLT

<div class="col-md-5">
     <label class="control-label">Gender</label>
     <div class="form-group">
          <div class="radio-list">
               <label>
                    <xsl:for-each select ="Customer/CustomerGender/CustomerGender">
                         <input type="radio" name="selectedGender">
                              <xsl:attribute name="id" >
                                <xsl:value-of select="Value"/>
                              </xsl:attribute>
                              <xsl:attribute name="value">
                                <xsl:value-of select="Value"/>
                              </xsl:attribute>
                              <xsl:if test="Selected = true">
                                <xsl:attribute name="checked">"checked"</xsl:attribute>
                              </xsl:if>
                              <xsl:value-of select="Text"/>
                         </input>
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                    </xsl:for-each>
               </label>
          </div>
     </div>
</div>

>Solution :

The way your line

<xsl:if test="Selected = true">

works is:

The test is an xpath expression
Selected is an element name on the child axis
this part will return a nodelist containing all elements with name Selected
then it will test if the value is the same as the boolean value true
for this the nodelist has to be converted to boolean, which is true if the nodelist is not empty
since in none of your iterations there is a CustomerGender without Selected it will always be true

So you probably want to change that into