valud-of

curtisdehaven · September 1st, 2015, 09:18 AM

Consider the following XML...

Code:

<myxml><hello>hello<world>world</world></hello></myxml>

And the following XSLT...

Code:

    <xsl:template match="myxml">

      <transformed>
        <xsl:value-of select="hello" />      
      </transformed>
    
    </xsl:template>

When we apply the transformation, the end result is...

Code:

<transformed>helloworld</transformed>

value-of returns the value of the selected element, <hello> and its children elements, in this case <world>. We want just the value of the selected element and NOT the children elements.

How do we just get the value of just the selected element, <hello>?

Thanks! -- Curt

mhkay · September 1st, 2015, 09:23 AM

Do a recursive descent using template rules. For example

Code:

<xsl:template match="hello">
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

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

<xsl:template match="world"/>

curtisdehaven · September 1st, 2015, 09:47 AM

Thanks for the quick reply, Michael.

Wow... That certainly does work. Now I just gotta figure out why... I'm a bit of a newbie.

Thanks again!