Getting nodeâs name

li72 · February 19th, 2008, 09:54 AM

Hi. Guys
I have an xml doc like the one below. I wonder how to read the name of each node in the xml doc. i.e. p1, p2 and p3 then store them into variables. Is it possible to do this using XSLT. How?

Your help is much appreciated

Cheers

<login>

    <p1 id="x" password="y" />

    <p2 id="xx" password="yy" />

    <p3 id="xxx" password="yyy" />

</login>

Martin Honnen · February 19th, 2008, 10:14 AM

Here is a sample XSLT 1.0 stylesheet that uses the local-name function to output the local name of all element nodes:

Code:

<xsl:stylesheet
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  version="1.0">

  <xsl:output method="text"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:for-each select="//*">
      <xsl:value-of select="concat(local-name(), '#13;#10;')"/>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

samjudson · February 19th, 2008, 10:21 AM

I find your use of the phrase "store them in variables" interesting.

Could you explain exactly why you want to store these in variables (and what type of variables? XSLT variables? Java variables?) and what you want to do with the variables.

I suspect there is a better way of doing what you are trying to do.

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/