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Select Node by index



File: Data.xml

<Employees>
  <Person>
    <FirstName>A</FirstName>
    <LastName>B</LastName>
    <DateOfBirth>2008-12-12</DateOfBirth>
  </Person>
  <Person>
    <FirstName>C</FirstName>
    <LastName>D</LastName>
    <DateOfBirth>2008-11-11</DateOfBirth>
  </Person>
  <Person>
    <FirstName>E</FirstName>
    <LastName>F</LastName>
    <DateOfBirth>2008-10-10</DateOfBirth>
  </Person>
</Employees>


File: Transform.xslt

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <html>
      <head>
        <title>this is the title</title>
      </head>
      <body>
        <h3>header 3</h3>
        <xsl:apply-templates
          select="/Employees/Person[1]/FirstName" />
      </body>
    </html>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="FirstName">
    <xsl:for-each select="following::*">
      <paragraph>
        <xsl:value-of select="name(.)" />
        which contains the text "
        <xsl:value-of select="." />
        ".
      </paragraph>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

<html>
   <head>
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
      <title>this is the title</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <h3>header 3</h3>
      <paragraph>LastName
                 which contains the text "
                 B
                 ".
               
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph>DateOfBirth
                 which contains the text "
                 2008-12-12
                 ".
               
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph>Person
                 which contains the text "
                 
             C
             D
             2008-11-11
           
                 ".
               
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph>FirstName
                 which contains the text "
                 C
                 ".
               
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph>LastName
                 which contains the text "
                 D
                 ".
               
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph>DateOfBirth
                 which contains the text "
                 2008-11-11
                 ".
               
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph>Person
                 which contains the text "
                 
             E
             F
             2008-10-10
           
                 ".
               
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph>FirstName
                 which contains the text "
                 E
                 ".
               
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph>LastName
                 which contains the text "
                 F
                 ".
               
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph>DateOfBirth
                 which contains the text "
                 2008-10-10
                 ".
               
      </paragraph>
   </body>
</html>

 








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