Selected Text-value of Autocomplete

How do get the displayed text of a selected item which I need to use in another control?

I can use e.g. $Autocomplete_name to get it's value, but I need the displayed item too.

I thought that @label would work, but alas not.

Hi John,

You can use $Autocomplete_name/@label. See for instance:
https://gist.github.com/avernet/9f290cf2ed4b5b580448

Alex

Hi Alex,

your example worked fine using the static service, but when we used  a POST webservice, although the autocomplete is correctly populated, using @label did not work. Maybe it is the way the webservice is deployed, but it is difficult to understand how this occurs if the autocomplete is correctly populated.

As a workaround, we set the value field to take the required value AND the label with a  delimiter and split them in XSLT in a further transformation after the form was completed.

Hi John,

I am not sure to follow you: where does the POST webservice come in? How does it relate to the autocomplete? Is that the service you use to populate the autocomplete? So you're not using the autocomplete in "resource mode"?

And of course, if you're good with your workaround, feel free to ignore my questions :).

Alex