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XML Tutorial » XPath » Abbreivation 
4. 10. 3. List the elements in an xml document
File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<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"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" 
  xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

  <xsl:output method="text"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:value-of>
      <xsl:text>Here is a list of the </xsl:text>
      <xsl:value-of select="count(//*)"/>
      <xsl:text> elements in your document:&#xA;&#xA;</xsl:text>
    </xsl:value-of>
    <xsl:value-of select="//*/name()" separator="&#xA;"/>
  </xsl:template>
  
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

Here is a list of the elements in your document:

list
title
listitem
listitem
listitem
listitem
listitem
listitem
listitem
4. 10. Abbreivation
4. 10. 1. Wildcard "*" selects all possibilities
4. 10. 2. "//" has two meanings
4. 10. 3. List the elements in an xml document
4. 10. 4. Count elements and attributes
4. 10. 5. template match="*" (asterisk)
4. 10. 6. template match="brand|name|units"
4. 10. 7. template match="/"
4. 10. 8. value-of select="."
4. 10. 9. Axis child:: can be be omitted from a location step as it is the default axis.
4. 10. 10. .. is short for parent::
4. 10. 11. // is short for /descendant-or-self::
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