problem with using XPath to locate some part of XML

Question

Duplicate of

HOw to make the text repeat only once every for-each?

I have problem with using XPATH to point to some element in XML. Here is my XML code:

    <character>
      <name>some name </some name>
    </character>

  </quote>
 <quote>
  ....
  </quote>
 </quotes>

and here My XSLT code:

<xsl:for-each select="quotes/quote">
    <xsl:value-of select="quotes/quote/character/name"/>
 </xsl:for-each>

WHat I try to do is that I try to list the name of character for every quote. BUt this code does not work WOuld you please help me with this problem? Thank you

Answer 1

The error is:
You use quotes/quote twice

You might try this one:

<xsl:for-each select="quotes/quote">
  <xsl:value-of select="character/name"/>
</xsl:for-each>

Answer 2

Inside the for-each, the context node is quote - so it looks like you just need:

<xsl:for-each select="quotes/quote">
    <xsl:value-of select="character/name"/>
</xsl:for-each>

Of course, the purists would argue that it would be better to use a match:

<xsl:apply-templates select="quotes/quote" />
...
<xsl:template match="quote">
    <xsl:value-of select="character/name"/>
</xsl:template>