[thelist] RE: XSL / XPath

Tue Nov 4 11:12:53 CST 2003

I think that this is what you want, this will select the inner-text if that is what you want: <body>

<xsl:template match="headline">
	<xsl:apply-templates select="/furtherdetails/runner[1]" /> </xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="headline">
	<xsl:apply-templates select="/furtherdetails/runner[2]" /> </xsl:template>

</body>

If you an attribute then:
<xsl:apply-templates select="/furtherdetails/runner[1]@id" /> 
That will give you the first runner nodes id. Careful it is all case sensitive.

A good link for XPath is http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XPathTutorial/General/examples.html 

I hope that helps!

-----Original Message-----

Here's a chunk of XML:

<headline>
         <furtherdetails>
                 <event id="248914" eventtypeid="94" betlive="0" 
bettingtype="Outright" numrunners="20">2003 World Cup - Outright</event>
                 <runner id="847157" handicap="0" currentprice="1.25" 
fractionprice="5/4 ">New Zealand</runner>
                 <runner id="847158" handicap="0" currentprice="1.5" 
fractionprice="3/2 ">England</runner>
                 <runner id="847159" handicap="0" currentprice="5" 
fractionprice="5/1 ">Australia</runner>
                 <runner id="847160" handicap="0" currentprice="12" 
fractionprice="12/1 ">France</runner>
         </furtherdetails>
</headline>

I'm trying to work out the XSL/XPath stuff to say "Take the first two 
runner nodes and do THIS with them", where THIS is dropping some of the 
values into a HTML table.

Anyone able to explain it? The XPath things have me baffled.

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