Re: [XSLT/newbie]value-of attributes of the root node

["John E. Simpson" <simpson@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:25 PM 09/19/2000 +0000, nik.makepeace@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The source is:
> <description name="AirCon 5000">
>  <change recency="7">
>  text
>  </change>
>  <change recency="4">
>  text
>  </change>
>  <change recency="3">
>  text
>  </change>
> </description>
>
> but this template returns nothing between <name> and </name>:
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>  <outputroot>
>   <name><xsl:value-of select="@name" />
>   </name>
>  <xsl:apply-templates />
>  </outputroot>
> </xsl:template>

The template matches on the document root node, not on the document root 
*element* node. So the xsl:value of selects on the attribute of the root 
node, which of course has no attributes.

Try changing the match pattern to match="/description".

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