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The id function selects elements by their unique ID
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File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<data>
<chapter id="intro">Introduction</chapter>
<chapter id="body">
<title id="t1">BODY</title>
<text value="text1">text text text</text>
</chapter>
<chapter id="end">THE END</chapter>
</data>
File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<paragraph>
<xsl:value-of select="id('intro')"/>
</P>
<paragraph>
<xsl:value-of select="id('body')/text"/>
</P>
<paragraph>
<xsl:value-of select="id('text1')"/>
</P>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><P/><P/><P/>
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