Re: [xsl] Unable to get text() of node

["Liron" <magilam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mukul,

Thank you very much for your reply and indeed you're right but I must ask 
for an explanation.
I can see why text()[2] would get me the second text node for the <child> 
element but I tried to do the following after your reply:
<child>
  <childname/>
  name
</child>

1) The output was "name" which means that even though <childname> is empty, 
its content is still considered as text node (though empty). Is that the 
case?

2) How can I get the text of <child> without knowing his descendants?. Just 
the absolute text of it ("name" in this case). I thought that child:text() 
would do the trick but it didn't.

I'm really trying to understand this but a newbie is a newbie after all...

Thank you
Liron

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mukul Gandhi" <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Unable to get text() of node


> Hi Liron,
>  I think you need
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
> version="1.0">
>
> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" />
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
>   <tree>
>     <xsl:for-each select="tree/child/childname">
>       <childText>
>         <xsl:value-of select="../text()[2]"/>
>       </childText>
>     </xsl:for-each>
>   </tree>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> Regards,
> Mukul