Build templated directive in AngularJS - angularjs-directive

Question

I have blocks of HTML like this that repeat tons of time in my code:
<div>
<label for="producer">Producer:</label>
<select id="producer" ng-model="producer" ng-options="producer.name for producer in producers">
<option value="">-- Choose Producer --</option>
</select>
</div>
So I want to make a directive (??) where I could instead do this:
<gsBoundSelect gsLabel="Producer:" gsDefaultOption="-- Choose Producer --"
ng-model="producer"
ng-options="producer.name for producer in producers" />
The for/id fields could just be a random generated string.
I've been reading up on directives but I can't quite figure out exactly how to do this so that I can pass in parameters like this. The examples I've seen all want a bound scope variable passed in vs an attribute.
It seems like I need both a link function and a template, but I'm confused how to do that. Thanks.

Answer 1

Found enough data through various books to get something working. Not sure if it's the best way, but it definitely works:
module.directive('gsBoundSelect', function ($compile) {
function generateUUID() {
...
}
return {
restrict: 'E',
link: function (scope, element, attrs) {
var lblId = generateUUID();
var content = [
'<div>',
' <label for="' + lblId + '">' + attrs.gsLabel + '</label>',
' <select id="' + lblId + '" ng-model="' + attrs.ngModel + '" ng-options="' + attrs.ngOptions + '">',
' <option value="">-- ' + attrs.gsDefaultOption + ' --</option>',
' </select>',
'</div>'].join('');
// We need to transform the content into a jqLite object
var jqLiteElem = angular.element(content);
$compile(jqLiteElem)(scope);
element.replaceWith(jqLiteElem);
}
};
});
As a side-note...I discovered the element directives added must be closed with a full tag, not the shorter syntax like I showed in my example. So the above works with this HTML:
<gsBoundSelect gsLabel="Producer:" gsDefaultOption="-- Choose Producer --"
ng-model="producer"
ng-options="producer.name for producer in producers">
</gsBoundSelect>