How to use <xsl:value-of select> to display a value in SharePoint 1

[ColonelBlue]

I copied a <xsl:value-of select="UserName" /> from a page to the top of a page where I can say Welcome UserName in SharePoint Designer
But it doesn't seem to work. I did the same thing with the generated results of rows ( count:number ) and tried to copy that to the top of the page but that doesn't work either.

Coming from the old school of.asp ( classic as they call it now ) where i would just use:
<% Response.Write Request.QueryString("name") %> I am totally clueless with this xsl code.

What am I doing wrong?
Does <xsl:value-of select="UserName" /> have to be between some other code?

And for the row count. Why would it only work at the bottom of the page or again am I coding that incorrectly?

Thanks in advance.

 

[vbkris]

hey Colonel,

you seem to have picked the "<xsl:value-of select="UserName" />" from a data view web part. It is useless without it being in an XSL template.

Just create a new data view web part and place it at your wherever you want to display the name.

that should work.

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