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Variable Referencing via XPath

Folks,

After kicking an absolute goal on this forum last time (or having that goal kicked for me) I was hoping to get some more help with my latest XPath conundrum.

I need to reference the values of an XML variable in this code via an XPath -

Code:

<od:PageBoxInfo ID="Link6">

<Page>

<PageBox BoxType="MediaBox" Width="594.999" Height="1280"/>

<PageBox BoxType="CropBox" Width="594.999" Height="1280"/>

<PageBox BoxType="BleedBox" Width="594.999" Height="1280"/>

<PageBox BoxType="ArtBox" Width="594.999" Height="1280"/>

<PageBox BoxType="TrimBox" Width="594.999" Height="1280"/>

</Page>

</od:PageBoxInfo>

I'm trying to get the width of the MediaBox. I'm assuming it will be something like -

//od:PageBoxInfo/Page/PageBox/BoxType='MediaBox'/Width

...but, as I've mentioned before, I can barely spell XPath. Any help much appreciated!!

Thanks in advance
HP

Quote:

Originally Posted by hermanpeckel (Post 1267073)

I'm trying to get the width of the MediaBox.

Given the XML:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<?xml-stylesheet type="application/xml" href="master.xslt"?>

<od:PageBoxInfo ID="Link6" xmlns:od="http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=272271">

        <Page>

                <PageBox BoxType="MediaBox" Width="594.999" Height="1280"/>

                <PageBox BoxType="CropBox" Width="594.999" Height="1280"/>

                <PageBox BoxType="BleedBox" Width="594.999" Height="1280"/>

                <PageBox BoxType="ArtBox" Width="594.999" Height="1280"/>

                <PageBox BoxType="TrimBox" Width="594.999" Height="1280"/>

        </Page>

</od:PageBoxInfo>

You can get the relevant value with the following XSLT style sheet:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<stylesheet xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xslt="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

        <!-- |method="xml"| required for standards mode in Windows Internet Explorer 9.00.8112.16421 Update Versions 9.0.9 x64 -->

        <output method="xml" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>

        <template match="/">

                <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US">

                        <head>

                                <title>Demo Document</title>

                                <style>

                                        /* Layout */

                                        * { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

                                        html, p { margin: 1em; }

                                </style>

                        </head>

                        <body>

                                <!-- Longform XPath Demo -->

                                <p>The media box width is <xslt:value-of select="descendant-or-self::node()/child::PageBox[attribute::BoxType='MediaBox']/attribute::Width"/> units.</p>

                                <!-- Shortform XPath Demo -->

                                <p>The media box width is <xslt:value-of select="//PageBox[@BoxType='MediaBox']/@Width"/> units.</p>

                        </body>

                </html>

        </template>

</stylesheet>