[xsl] newbie question

Hello

I have just started reading "beginning XSLT" from Wrox and I played
a little bit with the examples and tried them on my own xml files.

here is my xml file:


-------------
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<birds>
    <eagles>
        <species comment="seldom, in Germany only in the alpes">
            <english_name>Golden Eagle</english_name>
            <german_name>Steinadler</german_name>
            <prey>Birds, Mammals</prey>
        </species>
    </eagles>
    <falcons>
        <species comment="seldom">
            <english_name>Perigrine Falcon</english_name>
            <german_name>Wanderfalke</german_name>
            <prey>Birds</prey>
        </species>
    </falcons>
    <woodpeckers>
        <species comment="greatest woodpecker in Europe">
            <english_name>Black Woodpecker</english_name>
            <german_name>Schwarzspecht</german_name>
            <prey>insects, especially ants</prey>
        </species>
    </woodpeckers>
</birds>
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and here is the xsl file:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>

<xsl:template match="/">

	<html>
	<body>
	
	<xsl:for-each select="/birds/eagles">
		  
	<xsl:value-of select = "." />
		<input type="text" name="bla" value="{comment}"/>
	</xsl:for-each>
	
	</body>
	</html>

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
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I ran the example with xsltproc from libxslt 1.0.20 and with saxon 6.5.2
on RedHat 7.3


I get this output:

<html><body>

            Golden Eagle
            Steinadler
            Birds, Mammals

    <input type="text" name="bla" value="">
</body></html>



but I do not understand. why are the contents of the <english_name>,
<german_name> and <prey> printed and why is value="" ??

I thought that /birds/eagles would result in the species node.
and that "{comment}" would access the value of the "comment" attribute.

can anybody explain what is going on here ?

thanks
markus
















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