XSLT

Name

<xsl:value-of> — Calculates the value of an XPath expression, converts that value to a string, and then writes the value to the result tree.

Category

Instruction

Required Attributes

select

The XPath expression that is evaluated and written to the output document.

Optional Attributes

disable-output-escaping

An attribute that defines whether special characters are escaped when written to the output document. For example, if the literal text contains the character >, it is normally written to the output document as >. If you code disable-output-escaping="yes", the character > is written instead. The XSLT processor uses this attribute only if you use the html or xml output methods. If you use <xsl:output method="test">, the attribute is ignored becasue output escaping is not done for the text output method. See <xsl:text> for a more thorough discussion of the disable-output-escaping attribute.

Content

None. <xsl:value-of> is an empty element.

Appears in

<xsl:value-of> appears inside a template.

Defined in

XSLT section 7.6.1, Generating Text with xsl:value-of.

Example

We’ll use the <xsl:value-of> element to generate some text. Here is our stylesheet:

<?xsl version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output method="text"/> <xsl:variable name="newline"> <xsl:text> </xsl:text> </xsl:variable> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:text>Your document contains</xsl:text> <xsl:value-of select="count(//*)"/> <xsl:text> elements and </xsl:text> <xsl:value-of ...