Get value from an element with value-of and select : select « XSLT stylesheet « XML Tutorial

File: Data.xml 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Transform.xslt"?>
<greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>

File: Transform.xslt

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <html>
      <head>
        <title>Today's greeting</title>
      </head>
      <body>
        <paragraph>
          <xsl:value-of select="greeting" />
        </p>
      </body>
    </html>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

<html>
   <head>
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
      <title>Today's greeting</title>
   </head>
   <body>
      <paragraph>Hello, world!</p>
   </body>
</html>

5.66.select
	5.66.1.	select element by index
	5.66.2.	select value from attribute
	5.66.3.	select="@*\|node()"
	5.66.4.	select="state[not(@founding)]"
	5.66.5.	select=count(document(other.xml)/eu/other/state)
	5.66.6.	select element by attribute value
	5.66.7.	Reference text after selecting tags and attributes
	5.66.8.	select element and attribute
	5.66.9.	match parent and select children
	5.66.10.	Match parent and select grand-children
	5.66.11.	Match a certain element
	5.66.12.	select attribute
	5.66.13.	Get value from an element with value-of and select
	5.66.14.	Select element out
	5.66.15.	select="operand[(. < 50) and (. > 30)]"
	5.66.16.	Selecting elements based on values of other ones.