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Select=concat(The second album is , listlistitem[2])
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File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- albums.xml -->
<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"?>
<!-- comment2.xsl -->
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="html"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<head>
<title>XSLT and CSS Demo</title>
<style>
<xsl:comment>
p.big {font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold;}
p.odd {color: purple; font-weight: bold;}
p.even {color: blue; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;}
</xsl:comment>
</style>
</head>
<body style="font-family: sans-serif;">
<xsl:apply-templates select="list/title"/>
<xsl:comment
select="concat('The second album is ', list/listitem[2])"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="list/listitem"/>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="title">
<p class="big"><xsl:value-of select="."/></p>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="listitem">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="position() mod 2">
<p class="odd"><xsl:value-of select="."/></p>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<p class="even"><xsl:value-of select="."/></p>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>XSLT and CSS Demo</title><style>
<!--
p.big {font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold;}
p.odd {color: purple; font-weight: bold;}
p.even {color: blue; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;}
--></style></head>
<body style="font-family: sans-serif;">
<p class="big">title 1</p>
<!--The second album is item 2-->
<p class="odd">item 1</p>
<p class="even">item 2</p>
<p class="odd">item 3</p>
<p class="even">item 4</p>
<p class="odd">item 5</p>
<p class="even">item 6</p>
<p class="odd">item 7</p>
</body>
</html>
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