Re: [xsl] value-of select="." returning child node

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

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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