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File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<list xml:lang="en">
  <title>title 1</title>
  <listitem>item 1</listitem>
  <listitem>item 2</listitem>
  <listitem>item 3</listitem>
  <listitem xml:lang="sw">item 4</listitem>
  <listitem xml:lang="en-gb">item 5</listitem>
  <listitem xml:lang="zu">item 6</listitem>
  <listitem xml:lang="jz">item 7</listitem>
</list>


File: Transform.xslt

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:output method="text"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:value-of>
      <xsl:text>Here is a list of the </xsl:text>
      <xsl:value-of select="count(//*)"/>
      <xsl:text> elements in your document:&#xA;&#xA;</xsl:text>
    </xsl:value-of>
    <xsl:value-of select="//*/name()" separator="&#xA;"/>
  </xsl:template>
  
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

Here is a list of the 9 elements in your document:

list
title
listitem
listitem
listitem
listitem
listitem
listitem
listitem








4.10.Abbreivation
4.10.1.Wildcard "*" selects all possibilities
4.10.2."//" has two meanings
4.10.3.List the elements in an xml document
4.10.4.Count elements and attributes
4.10.5.template match="*" (asterisk)
4.10.6.template match="brand|name|units"
4.10.7.template match="/"
4.10.8.value-of select="."
4.10.9.Axis child:: can be be omitted from a location step as it is the default axis.
4.10.10... is short for parent::
4.10.11.// is short for /descendant-or-self::