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Re: Unable to get text() of node
Subject: Re: Unable to get text() of node
From: Geert Josten <Geert.Josten@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:20:36 +0100
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../text() returns a node-set with multiple text nodes (if present), but the xsl:value-of instruction
will copy the string value of only the first (text) node from the nodeset. This first text node is
however the white-space before the childname element and not the character data after the childname
element nor the character data inside the childname. text() returns all significant character data
sequences directly under the context node, not those of child nodes.
You might want to try xsl:copy-of instead of xsl:value-of. That will copy all text nodes in the
nodeset to the result tree, instead of only the first.
Regards,
Geert
Liron wrote:
Hi Mukul,
Thank you very much for your reply and indeed you're right but I must
ask for an explanation.
I can see why text()[2] would get me the second text node for the
<child> element but I tried to do the following after your reply:
<child>
<childname/>
name
</child>
1) The output was "name" which means that even though <childname> is
empty, its content is still considered as text node (though empty). Is
that the case?
2) How can I get the text of <child> without knowing his descendants?.
Just the absolute text of it ("name" in this case). I thought that
child:text() would do the trick but it didn't.
I'm really trying to understand this but a newbie is a newbie after all...
Thank you
Liron
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