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Radioactive Coffe
Radioactive Coffe

Reputation: 155

XML Keeps Selecting The Same Record

So recently I've been trying to extract the simplest data possible however XSL keeps selecting the first record all the time.

Now I have tested the select="//student", it successfully selects all the data but when it comes to displaying it in the table, it messes up I think

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="stylesheet.xsl"?>
<school>
 <class unitId="3311">
 <className>English</className>
 <studentList>
 <student id="1001">Lisa Simpson</student>
 <student id="1002">Barney Rubble</student>
 <student id="1003">Donald Duck</student>
 </studentList>
 </class>
</school>

XSL

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">
  <html>
  <body>
  <h2>My Students</h2>
    <table border="1">
      <tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
        <th style="text-align:left">STUDENT</th>
      </tr>
      <xsl:for-each select="//student">
      <tr>
        <td><xsl:value-of select="../student"/></td>
      </tr>
      </xsl:for-each>
    </table>
  </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

What I Keep Running Into

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 34

Answers (2)

Wilko van der Veen
Wilko van der Veen

Reputation: 456

You should use:

<xsl:value-of select="." />

Also it is better to specifically select the parent node in the for-each:

<xsl:for-each select="/school/studentList/student">
[...]
</xsl:for-each>

Upvotes: 1

Linga Murthy C S
Linga Murthy C S

Reputation: 5432

The xpath, ../student, is the problem. For every student in the document(//student) you are going to its parent and selecting the children students. Using xsl:value-of you will get only the first value as XSLT1.0 selects only the first element's value.

Change it to <xsl:value-of select="."/>

so that it selects the current value for every student.

Upvotes: 0

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