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From: "Julian F. Reschke" <julian.reschke@-----------------.-->
To: NULL
Date: 12/1/2004 1:09:00 AM

AlBruAn wrote:
> I'm in the process of creating an XSL file to handle XML transformation from 
> one document into another and don't quite know how to retrieve values to copy 
> over.  At some point in time, the source XML was modified from
>      <field name="BranchPlant">30</field>
> to
>      <field name="BranchPlant" value="30"/>
> 
> I don't have any problem returning the value of 30 in the original XML 
> layout, using <xsl:value-of select="*[.//@name='BranchPlant']"/>, but can't 
> retrieve it for the revised layout.

First, I'd make that...

	<xsl:value-of select="*[@name='BranchPlant']"/>

What you want is the attribute "value"'s value instead of the text 
content, so change that to...:

	<xsl:value-of select="*[@name='BranchPlant']/@value"/>


> How do I go about retrieving the value for a field when the value is stored 
> as the second attribute of a node?

Best regards, Julian

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