Re: [xsl] selecting a element without it's child element

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/11/2010 11:03, srinivasan.p@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Thanks Pankaj, its working fine now.
>
>
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> <xsl:variable name="filename"><xsl:value-of
> select="book/title/text()[1]"/></xsl:variable>
>
> --Pankaj

That's not a good solution, however. It's dependent on properties of 
your input that might not always hold, and that weren't specified in 
your description of the problem - notably, that all the text of the 
title other than the indexterm is in a single text node that is an 
immediate child of the title element. Pankaj has seen one example of 
your input data, and leapt to the conclusion that all other examples 
will be the same. You've run it on a single test case (I imagine), and 
concluded that it's correct because it works on that test case.

Learn to use template rules: they are the right way to tackle this kind 
of problem. In fact, they are the right way to tackle nearly every XSLT 
problem.

Michael Kay
Saxonica