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List the elements in an xml document
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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:

</xsl:text>
</xsl:value-of>
<xsl:value-of select="//*/name()" separator="
"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
Here is a list of the 9 elements in your document:
list
title
listitem
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