Hi,

My XML is in the following form

<Employee>Employee details
    <name>kumar</name>
    <country>india</country>
</Employee>

I want to select only the following data "Employee details" from the <Employee> tag, I don't want to select the child nodes in my XSLT. Does any one have the idea about how to select only the parent tag and ignore the child tag

Thanks & Regards,
Prem Rajesh Kumar.S

It's not a well designed XML document structure, and I should change it if possible, but you can extract the first text node of the Employee element by doing

<xsl:template match="Employee">
  <details>
    <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(text()[1])"/>
  </details>
</xsl:template>

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

thx for ur suggestion, but its not working. this is my original XML

    <ENTRY>
    <MWORD ID="000000114">
    <WORD>abduction</WORD>
    <SYL>ab&dot;duc&dot;tion</SYL>
    <PHON>ab-duk&stress;shun</PHON>
    <DEF>the act of abducting; the state of being abducted.
       <FIGURE>
         <IMAGE TYPE="float" FILE="abduction(1)"/>
         <FIG.CAPTION>Abduction of the fingers.</FIG.CAPTION>
       </FIGURE>
        </DEF>
        </MWORD>
    </ENTRY>
like this it has lot of <ENTRY> tags...

In this XML i want to get the only text of <DEF> tag ("the act of abducting; the state of being abducted."), i don't want to get the results of sub tags of <DEF> tag. Please advise me.

I need to know exactly what you did and exactly how it failed so that I can see what you did wrong.

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