Special Edition Using XSLT

Adding New Template Rules

The style sheets presented thus far have used <value-of> to retrieve the content of top-level elements and attributes. However, the XML document instance in Listing 2.1 also contains subelements, namely, the address element:

<invoice num=”2317” invoiceDate=”07-09-01”> 
    ... 
    <address> 
        <streetAddress>123 Fourth Street</streetAddress> 
        <city>Sometown</city> 
        <state>CA</state> 
        <zip>12345</zip> 
        <province /> 
        <country>USA</country> 
    </address> 
   ... 
</invoice> 

To retrieve the content from, say, <streetAddress>, you could assign a step pattern in the select attribute of a <value-of> element. That might look something like:

<xsl:value-of select="invoice/address/streetAddress" /> 

This approach works fine for this example because ...