Hi,
xml:..........

<catalog>
    <cd>
        <title def="2" >Empire1 </title>
        <title def="2" >Empire2 </title>
        <title def="2" >Empire3 </title>
        <title def="2">
            <run>raj1</run>
        </title>
        <title def="2">
            <run>raj2</run>
        </title>
        <title def="2">
            <run>raj3</run>
        </title>
    </cd>
</catalog>

when i require to select the values which are inside run tag alone i used this xsl statement to get the output

<xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd/title[@def='2']">
<xsl:value-of select="./run"/>
</xsl:for-each>



the below one gives me all the values which are in <title def="2" > tags along with the values of child tag run

<xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd/title[@def='2']">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>

how can i get the values from <title def="2" > tag ommiting the run tag.

i hav used the conditions like

<xsl:if test="string-length(normalize-space(catalog/cd/title[@def='2']/run)) &gt; 0">

to show the values under run tag alone..

but how to get the values other than run tag....


Thanks
Raj..

The simplest way would be to select the text node in <title>, like so:

<xsl:value-of select="text()"/>

You will probably find that this outputs more whitespace than you might have expected, but should get you closer to what you want.

A slightly different version that only outputs text nodes with something in them would look like this:

<xsl:value-of select="text()[normalize-space(.)!='']"/>

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

It would really help if you could learn the correct terminology (using the wrong terminology suggests that you haven't grasped the basic concepts). When you talk about "omitting the run tag", I strongly suspect that you mean "omitting the run element". Remember that an element has two tags, a start tag and an end tag. I suspect you want to omit the content between the tags (that is, the children of the element node) as well as the tags themselves.

Your code

<xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd/title[@def='2']">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>

will output the string value of the element - that is, its contained text - without any tags. That's what you asked for, but I suspect it's not what you want.

I'm not really sure what you do want, but if you only want the content of title elements that do not have a run child element, it would be

<xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd/title[@def='2'][not(run)]">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>

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

Hi kay,

yes u were correct i require title elements that do not have a run child element.
i require only for these three

 <title def="2" >Empire1 </title>
 <title def="2" >Empire2 </title>
 <title def="2" >Empire3 </title>