100% agree with you. I wish I could build the xml file myself. But trouble
is that we are using external xml file, don't have any control over the way
it is produced unfortunately.
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com]
Sent: 30 March 2005 14:00
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] extrat value from current node only.
Below are my xml & xls file:
One of the first things to learn with XSLT is to get your fingers around the
acronym...
________________ XML FILE _______________________
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<items>
<item>
title 1
<description>description 1</description>
</item>
<item>
title 2
<description>description 2</description>
</item>
</items>
_________________________________________________
Generally this isn't a good way of using XML mixed content (elements and
text nodes as siblings of each other). The normal use of mixed content is
for marking up parts of a continuous text, for example, <para>here is some
<emph>important</emph> text</para>. If it doesn't make sense to concatenate
the text with the adjacent elements, then the text should be in its own
element.
XSLT's value-of instruction assumes this design principle, because when you
take the value-of the <item> element, it concatenates all the contained
text.
You can get at "title 1" separately from the description element by
accessing the text nodes directly, but it's harder work.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
________________ XLS FILE _______________________
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:template match="items">
<xsl:apply-templates select="item"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="item">
title:<xsl:value-of select="current()"/>
description:<xsl:value-of select="description"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet> ___________________________________________________
I don't get
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
title:title 11
description:description 1
But ...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
title:
title 1
description 1
description:description 1
title:
title 2
description 2
description:description 2
What changes do I have to make to my xls file to get the
output I want?
Thank you for you help.
Emmanuel
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