wrong XPath expression

[Sebastian Kerekes]

Hi,

executing this code ..

<select name="language" class="v1">
<xsl:for-each select="/document/select[@ref = 'language']/item"> <option value="{value/text}"> <xsl:value-of select="text"/> </option> </xsl:for-each> </select>

... results in this:

<select class="v1" name="language">
<option value="de"></option>
<option value="en"></option>
</select>

Obviously <xsl:value-of select="text"/> is wrong. I want to access the text of of the item-nodes. How can I solve that?

Thx in advance,

Sebastian

 

[Kenneth Stephen]

Hi,

executing this code ..

<select name="language" class="v1">
<xsl:for-each select="/document/select[@ref = 'language']/item"> <option value="{value/text}"> <xsl:value-of select="text"/> </option> </xsl:for-each> </select>

Sebastian,

What does the input XML fragment that you are running this on look like?

Regards,
Kenneth

 

[Patrick TJ McPhee]

[...]

% <xsl:value-of select="text"/>

This will retrieve the value of text nodes which are immediate children of the current node (in this case, the node being considered by the for-each).

What you want to do is cast the current node to a string. As it happens, this is precisely what value-of does, so you could just use

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

but this explicit should also do what you want

<xsl:value-of select="string(.)"/>

In either case, the value that gets copied to the result tree is the concatenation of all text nodes which are descendents of the current node.