XSLT - retrieving an XMl tag value without its inn

I have an xml that looks like this:

<OuterTag> outerVal
   <Name> value1 </Name>
   <Desc> value2 </Desc>
</OuterTag>

and I want to retrieve the value of the outer tag ("outerVal"). when I use

xsl:value-of select="OuterTag" />

I get "outerValvalue1value2". How can i retrieve only the outer value?

回答1:

A complete solution:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >
    <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" method="text"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(OuterTag/text()[1])" />
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

outerVal

Note: Whitespace is significant inside XML elements. Here's a stylesheet that reveals the placement/structure of the text nodes in OuterTag and its children:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" method="text" />
    <xsl:template match="OuterTag/text()">
        <xsl:value-of select="concat('[', ., ']')" />
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="OuterTag/*/text()">
        <xsl:value-of select="concat('(', ., ')')" />
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

[ outerVal
   ]( value1 )[
   ]( value2 )[
]

Adding normalize-space:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" method="text" />
    <xsl:template match="OuterTag/text()">
        <xsl:value-of select="concat('[', normalize-space(), ']')" />
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="OuterTag/*/text()">
        <xsl:value-of select="concat('(', normalize-space(), ')')" />
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Produces the following result:

[outerVal](value1)[](value2)[]

回答2:

Try text():

<xsl:value-of select="OuterTag/text()" />

回答3:

Use this: <xsl:value-of select="OuterTag/text()"/>

回答4:

Adapt this xpath to your context

 "/Outertag/text()[1]"

This will retrieve the first text node of the Outertag root node. The other answers show you how to get all text children nodes of Outertag context node.