attribute

Eddy de Boer · June 16th, 2006, 05:23 AM

Hello, I have a problem in showing my attribute value in the node "periode". I want to show the atributes "aankomst" and "vertrek". The result only gives me the value of "naam".

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="boekingen.xsl"?>
<boekingen>
  <boeking>
    <naam>gast 3</naam>
    <periode aankomst="12-06-2006"/>
    <periode vertrek="15-06-2006"/>
  </boeking>
  <boeking>
    <naam>gast 1</naam>
    <periode aankomst="18-06-2006"/>
    <periode vertrek="23-06-2006"/>
  </boeking>
  <boeking>
    <naam>gast 2</naam>
    <periode aankomst="10-06-2006"/>
    <periode vertrek="12-06-2006"/>
  </boeking>
</boekingen>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"><xsl:template match="/">
<html>
  <body>
    <h2>Gasten Overzicht</h2>
      <xsl:for-each select="boekingen/boeking">
      <p>
        <xsl:value-of select="naam"/>
        <xsl:value-of select="periode[@aankomst]"/>
        <xsl:value-of select="periode[@vertrek]"/>
      </p>
      </xsl:for-each>
  </body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

This is the result:

Gasten Overzicht

gast 3

gast 1

gast 2

Where are my "aankomst" en "vertrek" values??

Thank you for your help.

joefawcett · June 16th, 2006, 05:42 AM

periode[@aankomst] means the periode element that has an aankomst attribute. You need periode/@aankomst and similarly periode/@vertrek.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

Eddy de Boer · June 16th, 2006, 06:05 AM

Thank you.
I couldn't find this info anywhere.

mhkay · June 16th, 2006, 06:11 AM

Change <xsl:value-of select="periode[@aankomst]"/>

to <xsl:value-of select="periode/@aankomst"/>

In XPath, read "a[b]" as "select a where b is true". So you are selecting periode if there is an @aankomst, and the value of the periode element is gast 3.

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

mhkay · June 16th, 2006, 06:14 AM

>I couldn't find this info anywhere.

as a matter of interest, where did you look?

Most XPath introductions that I know of cover this right at the start, for example

http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/xpath_syntax.asp

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

Eddy de Boer · June 16th, 2006, 07:12 AM

Thank you for your help.

Well I did also look at w3schools, but I grasped the info also as I should use nodename[@attributename];

they also speak about //title[@lang], and not title/@lang.