RE: HELP: value-of question

Works like a charm, when combined with a normalize-space() function.

Thanks, all!

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bayes [mailto:Chris@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 11:47 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: HELP: value-of question


Matt
<xsl:value-of select="ancestor::PID/text()"/></xsl:variable>

Ciao Chris

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Matt Coolidge
>Sent: 29 August 2000 16:19
>To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
>Subject: HELP: value-of question
>
>
>Hi everyone. I'm trying to to populate an xsl:variable with an 
>xsl:value-of,
>as follows:
>
>	<xsl:variable name="pid"><xsl:value-of
>select="ancestor::PID"/></xsl:variable>
>
>The xml looks something like this:
>
><PID>1
>	<desc>blah blah</desc>
></PID>
>
>The trouble is, <PID> is an element, with children, but I just want it's
>text value - i.e. I want my variable to contain "1", not a string
>representation of the whole tree!
>
>And, no, I can't just make the PID value an attr of PID *sigh*
>
>Pls help!!!
>--MC
>
>
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