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Is it possible to traverse the values of children of an element, and
no need to specify
the children's element names in XSLT element?

The XML file can be

<bio>
<skills>
<languages>
<language>XML</language>
<language>Java</language>
</languages>
<databases>
<database>Oracle</database>
</databases>
</skills>
</bio>

Approach #1: This will just append all data in a sequence of strings,
not good
<UL>
<xsl:for-each select="/bio/skills">
<LI><xsl:value-of select="."/></LI>
</xsl:for-each>
</UL>

Approach #2: correct approach, but it's tedious to specify all element
names that
need to traverse
<UL>
<xsl:for-each select="/resume/skills">
<xsl:for-each select="languages/language">
<LI><xsl:value-of select="."/></LI>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:for-each select="databases/database">
<LI><xsl:value-of select="."/></LI>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:for-each>
</UL>

any ideas? please advise. thanks!!

Matt <> wrote:
> Is it possible to traverse the values of children of an element, and
> no need to specify
> the children's element names in XSLT element?
>
> The XML file can be
>
> <bio>
> <skills>
> <languages>
> <language>XML</language>
> <language>Java</language>
> </languages>
> <databases>
> <database>Oracle</database>
> </databases>
> </skills>
> </bio>

Above is input. What output do you want?

--
William Park <>
Open Geometry Consulting, Toronto, Canada

(Matt) writes:

> Is it possible to traverse the values of children of an element, and
> no need to specify
> the children's element names in XSLT element?
>
> The XML file can be
>
> <bio>
> <skills>
> <languages>
> <language>XML</language>
> <language>Java</language>
> </languages>
> <databases>
> <database>Oracle</database>
> </databases>
> </skills>
> </bio>

<snip>

> Approach #2: correct approach, but it's tedious to specify all element
> names that
> need to traverse
> <UL>
> <xsl:for-each select="/resume/skills">
> <xsl:for-each select="languages/language">
> <LI><xsl:value-of select="."/></LI>
> </xsl:for-each>
> <xsl:for-each select="databases/database">
> <LI><xsl:value-of select="."/></LI>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </UL>
>
> any ideas? please advise. thanks!!

Does this help?

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

<xsl:template match="/">
<ul>
<xsl:for-each select="bio/skills/*/*">
<li><xsl:value-of select="."/></li>
</xsl:for-each>
</ul>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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