RE: [xsl] Choosing specific XML node with XSL

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

parent/text()

selects the text nodes that are immediate children of the <parent> element.
Remember that there may be more than one of them.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hiral Parikh [mailto:hparikh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 09 February 2005 22:21
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Choosing specific XML node with XSL
> 
> Hi,
> I am dealing with some dynamically generated XML and ran into some XSL
> parsing issues.
> 
> The XML is something like this:
> 
> <parent>this is parent text
> 	<child1><child2>this is child text</child2></child1> </parent>
> 
> I want the text of <parent> only, but
> <xsl:value-of select = "//parent/"/>  returns 'this is parent 
> text this is
> child text'.
> 
> How can I get only the text of <parent> tag and not the 
> <child1><child2>
> tag.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Hiral