Question

I’ve been trying to get the sum (total) value for elements in different nodes, but after a week messing around with example after example I am no step closer to the solution.

All I get is the different values listed in a string rather than the sum.

The selection used to get the values is:

<xsl:for-each select="//workgroups/workgroup/agentstatus/status">
  <xsl:if test="key='Available, No ACD'">
    <xsl:value-of select="sum(value)"/>
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>

This returns 111 rather than the expected value 3

What do I do wrong here?

This is xml version=”1.0″ encoding=’utf-8′

Answer 1

Try this:

<xsl:value-of select="sum(//workgroups/workgroup/agentstatus/status[./key/text()='Available, No ACD']/value)" />

The looping’s taken care of by the way XSLT works, so you don’t need to specify a for each or an if statement – it’s all implied by the xpath statement.
If this doesn’t work please can you post a copy of the XML you’re running it on and I’ll then update the xpath as required.