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outputting XML encapsulated literal using XSLT

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<xsl:value-of select="*/."/> or <xsl:value-of select="*/text()"/> should do the trick, as you are in the scope of an Description and you are looking for the Description content.

Both selects return the concatenation of all texts inside the child elements. If you got a structure inside your Description elements you might have to adjust the style to incorporate this.

In more "xsl afine" style, i.e. not using for-each loops but tempates the style sheet would look like this:

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" >
    <xsl:output method="html"/>
    <xsl:template match="/">
        <html>
            <body>

                <table border="1">
                    <tr bgcolor="#5d7b9d" >
                        <th style="color: white">Subject</th>
                        <th style="color: white">Predicate</th>
                        <th style="color: white">Object</th>
                    </tr>

                    <xsl:apply-templates select="rdf:RDF/rdf:Description"/>
                </table>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="rdf:RDF/rdf:Description">
        <tr>
            <td>
                <xsl:value-of select="@rdf:about"/>
            </td>
            <td>
                <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
            </td>
            <td>
                <xsl:choose>
                    <xsl:when test="*/@rdf:resource">
                    <xsl:value-of select="*/."/>
                </xsl:when>
                <xsl:otherwise>
                    <xsl:value-of select="*/."/>
                </xsl:otherwise>
            </xsl:choose>
            </td>
        </tr>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

In this stylesheet, IMHO, it becomes clearer what is the actual scope of the evaluation.

If you want to be sure that only either the resource or the content is shown, and also deal with multiple elements you could modify the above style sheet as follows:

<xsl:template match="rdf:RDF/rdf:Description">
    <tr>
        <td>
            <xsl:value-of select="@rdf:about"/>
        </td>
        <td>
            <xsl:value-of select="name()"/>
        </td>
        <td>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="rdf:RDF/rdf:Description/*"/>
        </td>
    </tr>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="rdf:RDF/rdf:Description/*">
    <!-- implements either or -->
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="*/@rdf:resource">
            <xsl:value-of select="*/."/>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:value-of select="*/."/>
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Obalix 2010-02-27 08:01:04

It works finally, thanks a lot!

louis 2010-02-27 13:36:50

Then it would be nice to accept the answer.

Obalix 2010-02-27 21:03:27

@Obalix: What is the difference between your `<xsl:choose>` alternatives?

Tomalak 2010-03-01 14:49:01

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