XPth Wildcard

by Online Tutorials Library July 14, 2022

XPath Wildcard

A list of XPath wildcards which are used with the XPath expressions.

Index	Wildcard	Expression
1)	*	It is used to match any node.
2)	.	It is used to match the current node in context.
3)	@*	It is used to match any attribute.
4)	node()	It is used to match node of any type.

XPath Wildcard Example

Let’s take an example to create a table of <employee> element with their detail, by iterating over each employee.

Employee.xml

 <?xml version = “1.0”?> <?xml-stylesheet type = “text/xsl” href=”../employee.xsl”?> <class>    <employee id = “001”>       <firstname>Abhiram</firstname>       <lastname>Kushwaha</lastname>       <nickname>Manoj</nickname>       <salary>15000</salary>    </employee>    <employee id = “002”>       <firstname>Akash</firstname>       <lastname>Singh</lastname>       <nickname>Bunty</nickname>       <salary>25000</salary>    </employee>     <employee id = “003”>       <firstname>Brijesh</firstname>       <lastname>Kaushik</lastname>       <nickname>Ballu</nickname>       <salary>20000</salary>    </employee>     <employee id = “004”>       <firstname>Zoya</firstname>       <lastname>Mansoori</lastname>       <nickname>Sonam</nickname>       <salary>30000</salary>    </employee> </class> 

Employee.xsl

 <?xml version = “1.0” encoding = “UTF-8”?> <xsl:stylesheet version = “1.0”>    xmlns:xsl = “http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform”>     <xsl:template match = “/”>        <html>           <body>              <h2>Employee </h2>              <xsl:apply-templates select = “class/*” />           </body>        </html>     </xsl:template>     <xsl:template match = “class/*”>       <xsl:apply-templates select = “@id” />        <xsl:apply-templates select = “firstname” />        <xsl:apply-templates select = “lastname” />        <xsl:apply-templates select = “nickname” />        <xsl:apply-templates select = “salary” />        <br />     </xsl:template>     <xsl:template match = “@id”>        <span style = “font-size = 22px;”>           <xsl:value-of select = “.” />        </span>        <br />     </xsl:template>     <xsl:template match = “firstname”>       First Name: <span style = “color:blue;”>           <xsl:value-of select = “.” />        </span>        <br />     </xsl:template>     <xsl:template match = “lastname”>       Last Name: <span style = “color:green;”>           <xsl:value-of select = “.” />        </span>        <br />     </xsl:template>     <xsl:template match = “nickname”>       Nick Name: <span style = “color:red;”>           <xsl:value-of select = “.” />        </span>        <br />     </xsl:template>     <xsl:template match = “salary”>       Salary: <span style = “color:brown;”>           <xsl:value-of select = “.” />        </span>        <br />     </xsl:template>  </xsl:stylesheet> 

Output:

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