CODEWITHSUNDEEP
xmlxslt
oiw
oiw

Reputation: 13

How to locate XML data between nodes by XSL

I am new to XML and XSL, sorry to ask a silly question. How to locate data 'a' using XSL.

<A>
  <B>b</B>
  <C>c</C>
  a
  <D>d</D>
  <E>e</E>
</A>

I have searched for answers and learned to locate b, c, d, e by using Xpath. When comes to data a, I failed. I tried to use path A but it displayed all data including b c a d e. Thanks for the help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 67

Answers (2)

Tomalak
Tomalak

Reputation: 338128

Several possibilities:

  • /A/text()
    this selects all child text nodes of <A>

  • /A/text()[not(normalize-space() = '')]
    this selects all non-empty text children of <A>

  • /A/text()[3]
    this selects the '\n a\n ' node from your example specifically (note that there are whitespace-only text nodes that count as well!)

  • /A/C/following-sibling::text()[1]
    this selects the '\n a\n' node from your example specifically

  • //text()[following-sibling::* or preceding-sibling::*]
    this selects all text nodes that have element siblings (i.e. mixed content)

Depends on how you look at it.

Upvotes: 1

rally_point
rally_point

Reputation: 89

Does something like //A/. not work? I'm no expert, but this should show the text for the A node only, I believe.

Upvotes: 0

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