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XSLT <value-of>

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Summary

<xsl:value-of> is an XSLT element that takes the value of a string from an XML node and writes it to the transformation output. The expression on the select attribute determines which node is selected; for the node-sets, the values taken are the string-values of the first node only. These elements are almost always used with <xsl:for-each> or <xsl:apply-templates> when you want to display a lot of data.

Key points

<xsl:value-of select="..."> write string-values of the resulting node
For sets of nodes containing many nodes, only the first node is taken to be worth
The elements generate the entire text in it, including text from the child element
Attributes are accessed with the @ sign, for example select="@price"
The built-in output is plain text, not XML fragments.

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