<xsl:value-of> Element
Inserts the value of the selected node as text.
<xsl:value-of
select = Expression
disable-output-escaping = "yes" | "no"
</xsl:value-of>
Attributes
- select
Required. The Expressions to be evaluated against the current context. The results are converted to a string, as by a call to thestring()
function. A node-set is converted to a string by inserting the string value of the first node in the set.
disable-output-escaping
Default is"no"
. If the value is"yes"
, a text node generated by instantiating the<xsl:value-of>
element will be output without any escaping. For example, the following generates the single character"<"
.<xsl:value-of disable-output-escaping="yes" select="string('<')"/>
Note
Because
disable-output-escaping="yes"
can be used to generate non-well-formed documents, it should be used with caution. Output that is not well-formed can generate errors in certain circumstances. For example,transformNodeToObject
to an XML document requires that the result be well-formed, and thus might not complete ifdisable-output-escaping
has affected the well-formedness of the document. Considerdisable-output-escaping="yes"
an advanced feature, to be used only when the potential dangers are understood.
Element Information
Number of occurrences |
Unlimited |
Parent elements |
xsl:attribute, xsl:comment, xsl:copy, xsl:element, xsl:fallback, xsl:for-each, xsl:if, xsl:message, xsl:otherwise, xsl:param, xsl:processing-instruction, xsl:template, xsl:variable, xsl:when, xsl:with-param, output elements |
Child elements |
(No child elements) |
Remarks
The <xsl:value-of>
element inserts a text string representing the value of the first element (in document order) specified by the select
attribute.
If the XML Path Language (XPath) expression returns more than a single node, the <xsl:value-of>
element returns the text of the first node returned (equivalent to the XMLDOMNode
object's selectSingleNode
method). If the node returned is an element with substructure, <xsl:value-of>
returns the concatenated text nodes of that element's subtree with the markup removed.
Example
The following XSLT file creates a <p>
element from a <person>
element with <given-name>
and <family-name>
child elements. The <p>
element will contain the string value of the first <given-name>
child element of the current node, followed by a space and the string value of the first <family-name>
child element of the current node.
XML File (family.xml)
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="family.xsl"?>
<family>
<person>
<given-name age="10">Fred</given-name>
<family-name>Smith</family-name>
</person>
<person>
<given-name age="13">Jill</given-name>
<family-name>Jones</family-name>
</person>
</family>
XSLT File (family.xsl)
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="person">
<p>
<xsl:value-of select="given-name"/>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="family-name"/>
</p>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output
This is the formatted output:
Fred Smith
Jill Jones
This is the processor output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<p>Fred Smith</p>
<p>Jill Jones</p>