How to set tag attributes using appendChild

[Chris Newland <cn...@nortelnetworks.com>]

Hi All,

I'm trying to generate XML dynamically using the DOM interface but I'm
having trouble creating attributes and attaching them to the tags I'm
creating.

I'm trying to make a dynamic form 'select' structure but I can't seem to
attach a 'value' attribute to each option I create.
This is not a problem for HTML (IE5) since it takes the name as the value if
no value is specified:

<select name="fruit">
<option>Banana</option>
<option>Apple</option>
</select>

The problem I'm having is when trying to apply a WML stylesheet since my WAP
device (the Nokia simulator) expects

<select name="fruit">
<option value="Banana">Banana</option>
<option value="Apple">Apple</option>
</select>

I'm trying to attach the attribute 'value' to the 'option' tag like this:

Element new_option = document.createElement("option"); // create the option

new_option.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Banana")); // set the value

Element new_value = document.createElement("value"); // create the value

new_value.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Banana")); // set the value

new_option.appendChild(new_value); // append the value to the option

// finally append the option to the select

my WML XSL code looks like this:

<select name="fruit">
	<xsl:for-each select="option">
		<option><xsl:apply-templates/></option>
	</xsl:for-each>
</select>

but the generated WML comes out as:

<select name="fruit">
	<option>BananaBanana</option>
	<option>AppleApple</option>
</select>

I've played around with this for ages now but I can't work out what I'm
doing wrong.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Chris

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