I have an XML which has the following content:
<ruletypes>
<ruletype>Local</ruletype>
<ruletype>Global</ruletype>
...
</ruletypes>
I'm wanting a list of the ruletypes, I tried the following:
<xsl:for-each select="//ruletypes/ruletype">
<li><xsl:value-of select="ruletype"/></li>
</xsl:for-each>
but it's not working
change the select like this:
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="//ruletypes/ruletype">
<li><xsl:value-of select="."/></li>
</xsl:for-each>
xsl:for-each sets the context to the ruletype element that is selected, so the OP's select="ruletype" looks for another ruletype under that element (and there are none). This way, the current ruletype element is selected (.) and converted to a string, which will return the node's text value.Eschew for-each and let the XSLT processor do most of the work:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="ruletype">
<li><xsl:apply-templates/></li>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
When applied to this document:
<ruletypes>
<ruletype>Local</ruletype>
<ruletype>Global</ruletype>
</ruletypes>
Produces the following output:
<li>Local</li>
<li>Global</li>
Note that this takes advantage of XSLT's built-in template for elements, which keeps the processing moving until an "interesting" node is encountered, and its built-in template for text nodes, which copies text through.
