selecting content though xpath with text()

[Mike Kamermans]

I'm having some trouble using text in an xsl:value-of xpath. I have the following xml:

....
<graphemes>
<grapheme>1</grapheme>
<grapheme>2</grapheme>
<grapheme>3</grapheme>
</graphemes>
....

and I want to xslt it into just "<graphemes>123</graphemes>". I used the following xslt:

<xsl:template match="graphemes">
<graphemes><xsl:value-of select="./text"></graphemes>
</xsl:template>

but that results in "<graphemes/>" being generated. If I use select="./node" instead, I just get "<graphemes>1</graphemes>"

how should I be doing this?

- Mike Kamermans

 

[Joris Gillis]

<grapheme>1</grapheme>
<grapheme>2</grapheme>
<grapheme>3</grapheme>
</graphemes>

I want to xslt it into just "<graphemes>123</graphemes>". I used the following xslt:

<xsl:template match="graphemes">
<graphemes><xsl:value-of select="./text"></graphemes>
</xsl:template>

Hi,

With <xsl:value-of select="./text"> , you're selecting the immediate text nodes of the 'graphemes' element. But this element only contains other elements named 'grapheme'. It are these 'grapheme' elements that contain the text nodes. And also, 'xsl:value-of' only selects the first node. So you should be using:
<xsl:copy-of select="grapheme/text"/>

But if the problem is really as simple as you've posted, then just use:

<xsl:template match="graphemes">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

regards,

 

[David Carlisle]

I'm having some trouble using text in an xsl:value-of xpath. I have the following xml:

...
<graphemes>
<grapheme>1</grapheme>
<grapheme>2</grapheme>
<grapheme>3</grapheme>
</graphemes>
...

and I want to xslt it into just "<graphemes>123</graphemes>". I used the following xslt:

<xsl:template match="graphemes">
<graphemes><xsl:value-of select="./text"></graphemes>
</xsl:template>

but that results in "<graphemes/>" being generated. If I use select="./node" instead, I just get "<graphemes>1</graphemes>"

how should I be doing this?

- Mike Kamermans

text selects the text nodes of graphemes which in your case just consists of white space text noded used to indent the grapheme elements.

You don't want the text node _children_ you want teh string value of teh whol eelement (which is the character data in all _descendants_) so just use select="."

By default that will give you
" 1
2
3
"

If you don't want the space to be considered use

<xsl:strip-space elements="graphemes"/>

at the top level of your stylesheet.

David