XSLT, 2nd Edition

Name

<xsl:value-of>

Calculates the value of an XPath expression, converts that value to a text node and then writes the value to the result tree.

Category

Instruction.

Required Attribute

select

The XPath expression that is evaluated and written to the output.

[2.0] In XSLT 2.0, this attribute is optional. The <xsl:value-of> element must have either a select attribute or it must contain content. It is an error if it contains neither or both.

Optional Attributes

disable-output-escaping

An attribute that defines whether special characters are escaped when written to the output document. For example, if the literal text contains the character >, it is normally written to the output document as >. If you code disable-output-escaping="yes", the character > is written instead. The XSLT processor uses this attribute only if you use the html or xml output methods. If you use <xsl:output method="text">, the attribute is ignored becasue output escaping is not done for the text output method. See the “<xsl:text>” section for a more thorough discussion of the disable-output-escaping attribute.

[2.0] In XSLT 2.0, this attribute is deprecated. You should use a character map instead; see the discussion of the [2.0] <xsl:character-map> element for more information.

[2.0] separator

Defines the characters that separate multiple values generated by the select attribute. The default value is a single space (#x20). The value of the separator attribute appears after all of the values except the last.

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