Usage Example

XSLT <value-of> Element

The <xsl:value-of> element allows you to retrieve the value from a node.

When using the <xsl:value-of> element, you use the select attribute to specify which node you want to retrieve data from.

Usage Example

This example is a continuation of the example from the previous lesson. Here, we have added the <xsl:value-of/> element to extract data from the child nodes called "name" and "url".

 <xsl:template match="/">   (other content/HTML markup goes here)   <xsl:apply-templates/> </xsl:template>  <xsl:template match="tutorial">   <xsl:value-of select="name"/>   <xsl:value-of select="url"/> </xsl:template> 

So, let's have another look at our XML document, and see which values will be selected:

 <?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?> <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="tutorials.xsl"?> <tutorials> <tutorial> <name>XML Tutorial</name> <url>http://www.quackit.com/xml/tutorial</url> </tutorial> <tutorial> <name>HTML Tutorial</name> <url>http://www.quackit.com/html/tutorial</url> </tutorial> </tutorials> 

And just to refresh your memory, these values will be displayed where we choose to place the XSLT <xsl:apply-templates> element.