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Re: value-of select="." returning child node
- From: Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 17:49:17 -0500
- Subject: Re: [xsl] value-of select="." returning child node
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Lou,
Since the string value of an element node is defined as the concatenation
of its text node descendants, your question doesn't really make much sense.
The (string) value of an element node always includes the values of its
children.
If, however, you're trying to get just text node children but not element
children, you can try <xsl:value-of select="text()"/> to get the value of
the first text node child. (The XPath expression 'text()' returns a set of
text node children. The value of a node set is the value of the first node
in the node set in document order.) Or to concatenate them, the cheap way is
<xsl:for-each select="text()">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
This will iterate over the text node children, skipping the others (element
nodes, comments and PIs), and return their values in sequence. When
serialized, this will come out as a string.
I hope that helps. If not, please post a bit of code to explain what you
mean by the "value of the current node".
Cheers,
Wendell
At 04:40 PM 11/28/01, you wrote:
>How can I get an <xsl:value-of select="." /> to return only the value of
>the current node and not it's child node as well?
>Thanks
>Lou
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