How to read same element in XML using XSLT

RPredrag · Jul 21, 2009

Hello!

I am pretty new to this and strugling with basic stuff.
Here is my problme.
I have this XML document

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="books.xsl"?>
<!DOCTYPE BOOKS[
<!ELEMENT BOOKS (BOOK+)>
<!ELEMENT BOOK (TITLE+,AUTHOR+,PUBLISHED+,DESCRIPTION*)>
<!ELEMENT AUTHOR (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT PUBLISHED (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT DESCRIPTION (#PCDATA)>
]>
<BOOKS>
<BOOK>
<TITLE>XML Step by Step Tutorial</TITLE>
<AUTHOR>Yu Yang</AUTHOR>
<AUTHOR>LI JANG</AUTHOR>
<PUBLISHED>2002</PUBLISHED>
<DESCRIPTION>Excelent XML tutorial for beginners.</DESCRIPTION>
</BOOK>
<BOOK>
<TITLE>SE Java</TITLE>
<AUTHOR>Mike Murach</AUTHOR>
<PUBLISHED>2006</PUBLISHED>
<DESCRIPTION>It is a beginner step by step instructional Java book.</DESCRIPTION>
</BOOK>
</BOOKS>

And this xsl

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="

http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl

utput method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>BOOKS</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="LightGray">
BOOKS
<TABLE border="1" align="center" bgcolor="LightGray">
<TR bgcolor="Teal">
<TH align="center">BOOK</TH>
<TH align="center">AUTHOR</TH>
<TH align="center">PUBLISHED</TH>
<TH align="center">DESCRIPTION</TH>
</TR>
<xsl:for-each select="//BOOK">

<TR>
<TD align="left"><xsl:value-of select="TITLE"/></TD>

<TD align="left">
<xsl:value-of select="AUTHOR"/>

 
<xsl:value-of select="AUTHOR"/>
-->
</TD>

<TD align="center"><xsl:value-of select="PUBLISHED"/> </TD>
<TD align="left"><xsl:value-of select="DESCRIPTION"/> </TD>
</TR>
</xsl:for-each>
</TABLE>
</BODY>
</HTML>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

This XSL read just first AUTHOR
I do not know how I can read second element AUTHOR from xml document using this XSL structure. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks a lot.

tsuji · Jul 21, 2009

A quick fix with limited scope of applicability would be this which has at least the merit to show you the "position" notion of xpath.
[tt]

 
<xsl:value-of select="AUTHOR[red][2][/red]"/>
[red][/tt]

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How to read same element in XML using XSLT

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