Getting the attribute value of an XML Element

[Greg Rothlander]

I have not needed to access an elements attribute value since I've started
working with XML and today I need to figure it out but I'm not having much
luck. This should be a very easy exercise but I think I'm missing something
very simple.

Here is a sample of the stream:

<TotalSales Company="Universal">
<DailySales>
<DailySalesDetail Date="12/01/2001">
<Units>200</Units>

[Russell Jones]

If I understood your question, you simply wanted to put the company name in
the table header. This should work, or at least give you a good idea of how
to proceed.

<xsl:template match="TotalSales">
<table width="100%" border="1">
<tr><th><xsl:value-of select="@Company"/></th></tr>
<xsl:for-each select="DailySales/DailySalesDetail">
<tr><td><value-of select="Units"/></td></tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</xsl:template>

Russell Jones
Sr. Web Development Editor,
DevX.com

"Greg Rothlander" <grothlander@austin400.com> wrote in message
news:3b376bf0$1@news.devx.com...
>
> I have not needed to access an elements attribute value since I've started
> working with XML and today I need to figure it out but I'm not having much
> luck. This should be a very easy exercise but I think I'm missing
something
> very simple.
>
> Here is a sample of the stream:
>
> <TotalSales Company="Universal">
> <DailySales>
> <DailySalesDetail Date="12/01/2001">
> <Units>200</Units>
> .
> .
> .
>
> I'm using XSL to generate a table and I need to include the company name
> as a header and use the date attribut as part of a row in a table. I've
> been using the following XSL code but I'm not sure this is the best way to
> handle what I'm doing. Now that the <Company> element has become an
attribute
> of the <TotalSales> element, I'm not sure how to gets it's value out. All
> of the examples in the numerous books I have do not use the <xsl:template
> match="/"> like I am using it in my code. The examples I have match a
particular
> element name like <... match="DailySales" >. I've not had much luck with
> this method so I've been coding it as follows...
>
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl">
> <xsl:template match="/">
>
> <xsl:for-each select="TotalSales/DailySales/DailySalesDetail">
> <table width="100%" border="1">
> <tr><td><value-of select="Units"/></td></tr>
> </table>
> </xsl:for-each>
> .
> .
> .
>
>
> How do I access the "Company" and "Date" elements in the example stream?
> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Greg Rothlander

[Greg Rothlander]

That was it!

Just needed to know to use the @ sign when you need the attribute value and
not the element value. Why can't they write books where you can just simply
look this stuff up? I must have went through 3 or 4 books appendix looking
up works like attribute, value-of, etc... without any luck.

Thanks so much...
Greg Rothlander

"Russell Jones" <arj1@northstate.net> wrote:
>If I understood your question, you simply wanted to put the company name
in
>the table header. This should work, or at least give you a good idea of
how
>to proceed.
>
><xsl:template match="TotalSales">
> <table width="100%" border="1">
> <tr><th><xsl:value-of select="@Company"/></th></tr>
> <xsl:for-each select="DailySales/DailySalesDetail">
> <tr><td><value-of select="Units"/></td></tr>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </table>
></xsl:template>
>
>Russell Jones
>Sr. Web Development Editor,
>DevX.com
>
>"Greg Rothlander" <grothlander@austin400.com> wrote in message
>news:3b376bf0$1@news.devx.com...
>>
>> I have not needed to access an elements attribute value since I've started
>> working with XML and today I need to figure it out but I'm not having
much
>> luck. This should be a very easy exercise but I think I'm missing
>something
>> very simple.
>>
>> Here is a sample of the stream:
>>
>> <TotalSales Company="Universal">
>> <DailySales>
>> <DailySalesDetail Date="12/01/2001">
>> <Units>200</Units>
>> .
>> .
>> .
>>
>> I'm using XSL to generate a table and I need to include the company name
>> as a header and use the date attribut as part of a row in a table. I've
>> been using the following XSL code but I'm not sure this is the best way
to
>> handle what I'm doing. Now that the <Company> element has become an
>attribute
>> of the <TotalSales> element, I'm not sure how to gets it's value out.
All
>> of the examples in the numerous books I have do not use the <xsl:template
>> match="/"> like I am using it in my code. The examples I have match a
>particular
>> element name like <... match="DailySales" >. I've not had much luck with
>> this method so I've been coding it as follows...
>>
>> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
>> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl">
>> <xsl:template match="/">
>>
>> <xsl:for-each select="TotalSales/DailySales/DailySalesDetail">
>> <table width="100%" border="1">
>> <tr><td><value-of select="Units"/></td></tr>
>> </table>
>> </xsl:for-each>
>> .
>> .
>> .
>>
>>
>> How do I access the "Company" and "Date" elements in the example stream?
>> Any help would be very much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Greg Rothlander
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