xsl:value-of not working as intended
Question
Hey im new to xml and trying to retrieve the value of a phone number shown below.
raw data -
<aboutus>
<title>The about us page!</title><br/>
<description>GameChat started in 1934 and was founded by Mr. Gary Cashew who established the business.
</description><br/>
<contact>
<phone>07642345537</phone><br/>
<email>GameChat@queries.co.uk </email><br/>
<post>12 Foxtrot Road, FI23 632</post><br/>
</contact>
</aboutus>
Template trying to turn data into a table
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th>Contact</th>
<th>Information</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Phone</td>
<td><xsl:value-of select="phone"/></td>
</tr>
</table>
When used my table is created but the value of phone is not entered. I've probably made an amateur mistake so any help would be greatful, thanks
all of my xlst code looks like this -
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<table border="1">
<tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
<th>Contact</th>
<th>Information</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Phone</td>
<td>
<xsl:value-of select="phone"/>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
1 answers
solution1
0 ACCPTED 2014-11-25 02:14:03
Try
<xsl:value-of select="/aboutus/contact/phone" />
as your template matches the root node, the context is positioned at the <aboutus> node, you need to get the path to <phone> correct as per the hierarchy (This is assuming that is all the XML and <aboutus> is the root node)
or
Don't care about the hierarchy and just want to select the <phone> tag whereever it is (assuming there is only one) try
<xsl:value-of select="//phone" />
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