Hello,

I would like to get only the "direct" children value, not level values of a xml tag.
Here is a sample
XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<test>
    <a>
        <b>b1</b>
        <b>b2</b>
        <b>
            <c>
                <b>b3.1</b>
            </c>
        </b>
        <b>b3</b>
    </a>
</test>

and XSL

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
 <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
    <xsl:template match="/test/a">
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="b">
        <new><xsl:value-of select="."/></new>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


Result:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<new>b1</new>
<new>b2</new>
<new>b3.1</new>
<new>b3</new>

There result contains the value 3.1 but I dont want it.

I guess it something in the match value.
Thank you
Seb

Your a element has 4 direct b children. The third one is

 <b>
      <c>
           <b>b3.1</b>
      </c>
 </b>

You are processing the direct children by outputting their string-value (using xsl:value-of). The string value of the above element is "b3.1" (with some surrounding whitespace, unless you are using MSXML which incorrectly removes it).

I don't know what rules you want to apply. If you want to completely exclude b elements that have element children of their own, write an extra template rule

<xsl:template match="b[*]"/>



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference