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Asked: 2026-05-20T18:02:12+00:00

I have an XML configuration file, i want to pull one of the fields

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I have an XML configuration file, i want to pull one of the fields from that file and include it on my XSL.

Here are the examples that I have come across:

<xsl:template match="">
  <html>
    <head>
      <title>My Page</title>
      <!-- CSS styles included here -->
      <xsl:copy-of select="document('style.xml')/style" />
    </head>
    <body>
      <!-- ... -->
    </body>
  </html>
</xsl:template>

But this doesn’t solve my problem as it includes the whole .xml file. I only want one of the properties in the xml file to be included so i would have to parse it inside the xsl and include only that node. How do i do that?

Thank you

Update from comments

If I include the following line in my
XSL: 

<xsl:copy-of select="document('cmsaENV.xml')/STR_ENV_PROPS/text()"/>

And my xml contains: 

<STR_ENV_PROPS value="c:/apps/cit/deploy/d_cmsadm/cmsa_applicationEnv.xml"/>

Then the string
"c:/apps/cit/deploy/d_cmsadm/cmsa_applicationEnv.xm"
will be placed inside my xsl? Is this
correct?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m not sure to really get what you want, but if you want to include only the contents of the <style> element (and not the element itself), replace

    <xsl:copy-of select="document('style.xml')/style" />

    with

    <xsl:value-of select="document('style.xml')/style/text()" />

    text() selects the textual content of the style element in the imported document.

    EDIT: if instead of the textual contents you want the value of an attribute, you need something like:

    <xsl:value-of select="string(document('style.xml')/style/@someAttribute)" />

    Note that you need to convert the attribute into a regular text string, which I do with the string() function.

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