Question

I am new to xml and xsl, if this is a easy question, and if my term is not correct, I am sorry for that.

My question is that, the “ab” and “cd” belong to element, however in xsl, the xpath expression “../text()”, always point to “ab”, but not “cd”.
Is there any way I can get “cd”? Thanks a lot!

xml:

<root>
ab
<CH>xxxx</CH>
cd
<CH>xxxx</CH>
</root>

xsl:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
          xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
      <xsl:template match="root" >
          <xsl:apply-templates select="CH"/>

    </xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="CH" >
    <c> 
        <xsl:value-of select="../text()"/>
    </c>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

current result:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<c>
ab
</c><c>
ab
</c>

desire result:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<c>
ab
</c><c>
cd
</c>

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sorry, missing the sample code

<root>
ab
<CH>xxxx</CH>
cd
<CH>xxxx</CH>
</root>


current result: <c>ab</c><c>ab</c> 
desire result: <c>ab</c><c>cd</c>

Answer 1

../text()

returns the two text nodes which are children of your parent.

1. ab
2. cd

<xsl:value-of select="../text()" />

implicitly added a [1] to filter the select statement to the first item in the select statement. There are a number of ways to select the appropriate text node, using preceding-sibling:: as suggested by Alejandro is probably the best for your problem, but another solution which makes it clearer what is happening with your current ../text() expression would be to change the template to:

<xsl:template match="CH" >
    <xsl:variable name="position" select="position()"/>
    <c> 
        <xsl:value-of select="../text()[$position]"/>
    </c>
</xsl:template>