Simple XSL Pattern Demo

makeId(this) function makeId(e) { if (e) return makeId(e.selectSingleNode("..")) + absoluteChildNumber(e) + (e.nodeType == 2 ? "@" : "_"); else return ""; }

Simple demonstration of performing queries against an XML document using XSL Patterns.

XSL Pattern:

Some Sample Queries:

authors

authors/author

authors/author/name

authors/*/name

authors/author/*

authors/author[nationality]/name

authors/author[nationality='Russian']/name

authors/author[@period="classical"]

authors/author/@period

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