XSL manually selecting child nodes

Question

Stupid question here. Got total brain-lock today.

I want to manually select a specific child node from xml. EG.

    <somenode>
         <somechild>Something</somechild>
         <somechild>Something else</somechild>
         <somechild>Something new</somechild>
         <somechild>Something old</somechild>
         <somechild>Something borrowed</somechild>
         <somechild>Something green ha ha</somechild>
    </somenode>

I know I can use

    <xsl:for-each select=

to select all of them. But how, for example, can I just select node 2 using xsl 1.0 please?

I know its a pretty basic question, and I should know the answer. Just having a bad day.

Andy Andy · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-09T11:43:22

2

votes

This should do what you want:

<xsl:value-of select="/somenode/somechild[2]"/>

XSL manually selecting child nodes

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