XSLT <value-of>
XSLT <xsl:value-of> Element
<xsl:value-of> element is used to extract a selected The value of the node.
<xsl:value-of> element
<xsl:value-of> element is used to extract the value of an XML element and add the value to the converted In the output stream:
Example
<?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>
<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>
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Example Explanation
Note: In the above example, the value of the select attribute is an XPath expression. This XPath expression works like locating a file system, where a forward slash (/) selects a subdirectory.
The result of the above example has a slight flaw, only one row of data is copied from the XML document to the output. In the next chapter, you'll learn how to use the <xsl:for-each> element to loop through XML elements and display all records.
