Accessing Node Values

Accessing Node Values

The <xsl:value-of> element writes the string value of an expression to the result document; in particular, you can use it to return the value of a node, which, for an element, is the elements enclosed text.

You can assign the <xsl:value-of> elements select attribute an XPath expression that specifies a node or node set. When youre in the template that matches <PLANET> elements, you can use the XPath expression "child::MASS" to refer to the <MASS> child element. As youll see in Chapter 4, you can abbreviate XPath expressions in a number of ways, and in particular, "child::MASS" can also be written simply as "MASS" . That means you can recover the data from the child elements such as <MASS> , <DAY> , and so on in this way:

Listing 3.1 Full Version of planets.xsl
 <?xml version="1.0"?>  <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">      <xsl:template match="/PLANETS">          <HTML>              <HEAD>                  <TITLE>                      The Planets Table                  </TITLE>              </HEAD>              <BODY>                  <H1>                      The Planets Table                  </H1>                  <TABLE BORDER="2">                      <TR>                          <TD>Name</TD>                          <TD>Mass</TD>                          <TD>Radius</TD>                          <TD>Day</TD>                      </TR>                      <xsl:apply-templates/>                  </TABLE>              </BODY>          </HTML>      </xsl:template>      <xsl:template match="PLANET">         <TR>            <TD><xsl:value-of select="NAME"/></TD>            <TD><xsl:value-of select="MASS"/></TD>            <TD><xsl:value-of select="RADIUS"/></TD>            <TD><xsl:value-of select="DAY"/></TD>         </TR>     </xsl:template>  </xsl:stylesheet> 


Inside XSLT
Inside Xslt
ISBN: B0031W8M4K
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Year: 2005
Pages: 196

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