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XSLT <xsl:value-of> Element

XSLT Element Reference

Definition and Usage

The <xsl:value-of> element element extracts the value of a selected node.

The <xsl:value-of> element can be used to select the value of an XML element and add it to the output.

Syntax

<xsl:value-of select="expression" disable-output-escaping="yes|no" />

Attributes

Attribute	Value	Description
select	expression	Required. An XPath expression that specifies which node/attribute to extract the value from. It works like navigating a file system where a forward slash (/) selects subdirectories.
disable-output-escaping	yes no	Optional. "yes" indicates that special characters (like "<") should be output as is. "no" indicates that special characters (like "<") should be output as "<". Default is "no"

Examples

The example below puts the values from the first title and artist elements and puts it in a table:

Example 1

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
    <h1>Music Collection:</h1>
    <table border="1">
      <tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
        <th>Title</th>
        <th>Artist</th>
      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="catalog/cd/title" /></td>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="catalog/cd/artist" /></td>
      </tr>
    </table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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The example below loops trough each cd element and creates a table row with the values from title and artist for each cd element:

Example 2

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
    <h1>Music Collection:</h1>
    <table border="1">
      <tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
        <th>Title</th>
        <th>Artist</th>
      </tr>
      <xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd">
      <tr>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="title" /></td>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="artist" /></td>
      </tr>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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XSLT Element Reference