Re: xsl:value-of /xsl:copy-of

[Dan Morrison <dman at es dot co dot nz>]

SoftLiban DAGHFAL Carole wrote:
> 
> Hi
> I just want to know the difference between xsl:value-of  and xsl:copy-of


There's plenty of technical terms that'll explain exactly what's
happening, but _in_practice_:

value-of returns the exposed text of the selected item, all the data
which is left if the <TAGS> are removed

copy-of places the selection, tags and all, into the results. If you
want to nest HTML inside an XML node, you probably want to use copy-of
to get at it later.

OTOH you almost always want to use value-of when reading attributes, as
copy-of would result in the attribute being added as an attribute of the
current node.

Have a play, it'll all become clear.

.dan.


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