File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?>
<transcript>
<student id="STU12345" name="name 1" status="active">
<home_address>35 Wall Street, Wonderland, NJ</home_address>
<interests>
<interest>interest 1</interest>
<interest>interest 2</interest>
<interest>interest 3</interest>
</interests>
</student>
<term>
<heading name="Winter 1999" />
<course>
<course-name>course 1</course-name>
<grade>A-</grade>
<credits>4</credits>
</course>
<course>
<course-name>course 2</course-name>
<grade>A</grade>
<credits>3</credits>
</course>
</term>
<summary>summary</summary>
<comments>
comments
</comments>
</transcript>
File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="transcript">
Student received A's in the following courses:
<xsl:apply-templates
select="term/course[starts-with(grade,'A')]" />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="course">
<xsl:value-of select="course-name" />
<xsl:if test="not(position()=last())">,</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Student received A's in the following courses:
course 1,course 2
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