XSLT <xsl:value-of> Element

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# XSLT <xsl:value-of> Element

The <xsl:value-of> element is used to extract the value of a selected node.

## The <xsl:value-of> Element

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

    <?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>
       <h2>My CD Collection</h2>
       <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>

Note: The value of the select attribute is an XPath expression. An XPath expression works like navigating a file system; where a forward slash (/) selects subdirectories.

The result of the transformation above will look like this:

## My CD Collection

Title | Artist
--- | ---
Empire Burlesque | Bob Dylan

View the XML file, View the XSL file, and View the result

The result from this example was also a little disappointing, because only one line of data was copied from the XML document to the output.

In the next chapter you will learn how to use the <xsl:for-each> element to loop through the XML elements, and display all of the records.

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