Subject: RE: [xsl] Conditional extraction of data From: "Bradley, Peter" <PBradley@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 14:44:51 -0000 |
Yeah. This neatly sums up the problems I've been having. An XPath expression always seems to return an entire sub-tree, and it seems to me that I just want a single node in this case. Will xsl-copy give me that? Peter -----Original Message----- From: Geert Josten [mailto:Geert.Josten@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 08 November 2004 14:42 To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [xsl] Conditional extraction of data M. David Peterson wrote: > ooops! > > This portion: > > <xsl:value-of select="foo"/> will output: "this is the value of foo" > > <xsl:value-of select="foo"/> will output a copy of all the text elements > as well as the elements and there values that are descendants of foo. o > > should have read... > > <xsl:value-of select="foo"/> will output: "this is the value of foo" Not true. xsl:value-of takes the first element from the node-set that results from the expression "foo" and converts that to a string. As both sub elements <bar> and <p> are _inside_ element <foo>, their textual content is returned as well. The output is therefore: " this is the value of foo this is the value of bar.this is the value of a paragraph that is the child of bar " (including new-lines when white-space is preserved) > <xsl:copy-of select="foo"/> will output a copy of all the text elements > as well as the elements and there values that are descendants of foo. > > Sorry for the confusion! > > <M:D/> Grtz, Geert
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