traverse the whole tree without knowing the node

dipsut · June 1st, 2007, 04:31 PM

hi!
I wanted to traverse each node without knowing the name of each of the node.
I am looking for specific text within two nodes but that text could appear within any node. I am only aware of text but not node, I need to write my xslt such that it find that term and create a new xml file using that text as node.
is it possible.?
thanks.

mhkay · June 1st, 2007, 04:51 PM

I suspect that by "node" you mean "element node".

//*[.='dipsut']

will return all the element nodes whose content is the string 'dipsut'

//*[contains(text(),'dipsut')]

will return all the element nodes whose content contains the string 'dipsut', within a single text node child of the element node.

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

the_outsider · June 17th, 2011, 06:21 AM

How can I retrieve the node name by the attibute id ?

<xsl:value-of select ="//*[@id="$referencename"] returns the list of values within the node. Is a looping required to get the node name ?

mhkay · June 17th, 2011, 07:49 AM

Please don't add your questions to a three-year-old post - start a new thread.

You can write

Code:

name(//*[@id='xxx'])