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Michael Kay wrote: > > My Code is like this: > > <Node>Hello > > <SubNode>Hello Here!</SubNode> > > <SubNode>Hello Here!</SubNode> > > </Node> > > > > Now I want to access text "Hello" from <Node>.When I use <xsl:value-of > > select="."/> > > It gives me Hello > > Hello Here! > > Hello Here! > > But I dont want "Hello Here!" text.I want "Hello" text only. > > Can anybody please help to get this. > > xsl:value-of select="text()[1]" > > (The [1] is just for clarity, without it you would get the first text node > anyway). > Yogesh, As Mike Kay points out, using <xsl:value-of> returns a string representation of the first node in the specified node set. Specifying select="text()" creates a node set containing all the child text nodes, but when this is converted to a string only the first node is used (which, incidentally, may just be whitespace between element nodes). For the example data you give this will work fine but, just in case you have truly mixed data and you can't predict where your text nodes will be, you may want to concatenate all the child text nodes together. To achieve this you can either iterate over the child text nodes like this:- <xsl:template match="Node"> <xsl:for-each select="text()"> <xsl:value-of select="."/> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template> or, more simply, copy all the child text nodes to the output destination like so:- <xsl:template match="Node"> <xsl:copy-of select="text()"/> </xsl:template> I hope this helps to clarify the situation. Regards ~Rob -- Rob Lugt ElCel Technology http://www.elcel.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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