XSL Stylesheet for Form with TEXT AREA not responding to DATASRC or DATAFLD

Question

I have a stylesheet for Form which displays data in the input boxes for edit and re submit.
While all input text boxes show data from the database, TextArea box does not display the value for edit
<div align="left">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
width="600">
<tr>
<td width="600" height="1">
<font face="Arial" size="2">17. Describe how
the accident or exposure
happened</font>
<textarea rows="3"
name="P_ACCD_TXT"
datafld="{ACCD_TXT}"
onblur="javascript:while(''+this.value.charAt(0)==' ')this.value=this.value.substring(1,this.value.length);"
cols="72">
</textarea>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
In other input boxes value="{column_name}" works, but value attribute is not available for textarea. both datasrc="{ACCD_TXT}" and datafld="{ACCD_TXT}" do not work.
Is it because datsrc and datafld are not supported. Would very much appreciate if some one can clarify on tthis and advise how to go about retreiving data into textarea box
Thanks

Answer 1

datasrc and datafld are Microsoft IE specific "data binding" attributes that are supported in the MS IE5 implementation of HTML.
What you likely want is just the standard HTML way of putting data into a <textarea> that you would do in XSLT like this:
<textarea>
<xsl:value-of select="ACCD_TXT"/>
</textarea>assuming that the current node has a child element named <ACCD_TXT> in the source document.