Good day.

I have an xml file that has the following first line:

<batch userID = "FTUHRViewExtract" batchID = "FTUHRBatch.2008.06.09.14.21.10">

...and I'd like to display the userID and batchID fields in
the resulting transformed HTML file.

Does anyone know of a way in XSL to grab those two strings using
the tags 'userID' and 'batchID' ?

I've googled it and can't seem to find anything.

Any help is appreciated.

Well, this figures.....
I discovered how to do this just after I posted this.

Use:

<xsl:for-each select="batch">
   ...table, tr, td, etc
    <xsl:value-of select="@userID" />
   ...other stuff...
</xsl:for-each>

I hope this helps someone else who's struggling....

It's hard to find thing on google unless you take the trouble to learn the terminology. userID and batchID are attributes. The thing from "<batch" to ">" is called a start tag; it marks the start of an element. People often use the word "tag" incorrectly to mean "element"; you are using it incorrectly to mean "attribute". With that kind of confusion, google doesn't stand a chance.

Wrox do some excellent books...

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

Thanks, Michael.

I don't work with XSL enough to be knowledgeable to
that degree, but thanks to you and others, I'm getting
better.