RE: accessing individual nodes while iterating

> From: NIENKE, Bill P. - ACCOR-NA [mailto:Nienke_Bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 2:36 PM
> Subject:  accessing individual nodes while iterating
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I'm having troubles translating XML into HTML. I can iterate 
> through the WPT
> nodes, but I get all of the child nodes too. Since I don't 
> want all of the
> nodes in my output I'd like to format like this:
> <a 
> href="http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=38989">Hunt
> for the Hideout by Nick & Nora</a> - GC984D

You didn't provide your current XSLT code, but I'm guessing that you're
using xsl:copy-of instead of xsl:value-of.  copy-of will do a deep copy of
the node (attributes and child nodes included).  value-of copies the string
value of the select expression.  The following does what you want:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="html"/>
	
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:for-each select="wpt">
	<a>
	  <xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of
select="url"/></xsl:attribute>
	  <xsl:value-of select="desc"/>
	</a> - <xsl:value-of select="name"/><br/>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

> Also, how would I work an xsl:sort into the iteration?

xsl:sort must appear before the template body in a for-each iteration:

<xsl:for-each select="wpt">
  <xsl:sort select="desc"/>
  etc.
</xsl:for-each>

hth,
b.

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