this might be an overly complicated solution to a problem I face due to somewhat ridiculous business rule restrictions.
I have a sharepoint site that is supposed to be the central repository for forms. So I have those forms in a document Library Only problem is not all the forms sit there, some infopath forms are hosted elsewhere, and some "forms" are actually other web pages. So I have a List set up with the form name, and a column storing the URL of the location of that form (forms in the local library included) however, sharepoint has a RIDICULOUS restriction on URL column types for 255 characters, a single line of text has the same stupid restriction, so I have created the column as a multiple line text field. I need more than 255 characters as some of the infopath forms URL's are rather lengthy. Now the datasource of the dataform web part is the List. In my aspx page I have the following pulling through what I THOUGHT should be the text which is the URL of the forms location, format that as a hyperlink.
<ul><a href="{@FormLocation}" target="_blank">
<xsl:value-of select="@Title" /></a></ul></td>
This is the section that pulls through the text and formats it as a hyperlink. @FormLocation is the column with the text url. @Title is the forms Title.
What happens is that the rendered HTML get's populated with the url that i want but it is PREFIXED with the following.
Then my required text is placed and it is then suffixed with
</a></div></div>
The prefix that is put in is actually the location of the page that the webpart is on.
Does anyone have ANY idea WHY
<a href="{@FormLocation}" target="_blank">
pulls through more than what actually sits in that @FormLocation column?
I am exceptionally new to sharepoint, and 5 of the sharepoint "guru's" here have no idea at all.
