January 2003
Beginner to intermediate
1200 pages
23h 42m
English
Content preview from Real World XML
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Getting the Value of Nodes with xsl:value-of
In this example, I'll extract the name of each planet and insert that name into the output document. To get the name of each planet, I'll use the <xsl:value-of> element in a template targeted at the <PLANET> element. I'll select the <NAME> element with the select attribute, like this:
Listing . ch13_07.xsl
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="PLANETS">
<HTML>
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</HTML>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="PLANET">
<xsl:value-of select="NAME"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
|
Using select like this, you can select nodes. The select attribute is much like the match attribute of the <xsl:template> ...