XPath Absolute Path

Last Updated : 16 Oct, 2023

XPath-Absolute Path is the exact path specifying to reach the XML node. The absolute path starts with the root node or with the ‘/’ symbol. For the absolute path, we have to specify every parent node of the node we want to reach.

Syntax:

<xsl:TagName select = "/rootNode/node1/...">

Parameters:

rootNode: It is the root node of the XML tree.
node1: It is the child node of the root node. and this path goes on till we reach our desired node.

Example 1: In this example, we will use the absolute path to select the different nodes of students. Save the file as mentioned and view xsl file in we browser.

XML

<!-- File name- Text.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl "href="Rule.xsl" ?>
<student>
    <s studentId="1001">
        <name>Divyank Singh Sikarwar </name>
        <branch>CSE</branch>
        <age>18</age>
    </s>
    <s studentId="1005">
        <name>Aniket Chauhan </name>
        <branch>CSE</branch>
        <age>20</age>
    </s>
    <s studentId="1010">
        <name>Simran Agarwal</name>
        <branch>CSE</branch>
        <age>23</age>
    </s>
    <s studentId="1015">
        <name>Abhay Chauhan</name>
        <branch>CSE</branch>
        <age>17</age>
    </s>
    <s studentId="1012">
        <name>Himanshu Bhatia</name>
        <branch>IT</branch>
        <age>25</age>
    </s>
</student>

XML

<!-- File name - Rule.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>
            <h1 align="center">Students' Basic Details</h1>
            <table border="3" align="center" >
                <tr>
                    <th>Stud.Id</th>
                    <th>Name</th>
                    <th>Branch</th>
                    <th>Age</th>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        <xsl:value-of select="/student/s[1]/@studentId"/>
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <xsl:value-of select="/student/s[1]/name"/>
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <xsl:value-of select="/student/s[1]/branch"/>
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <xsl:value-of select="/student/s[1]/age"/>
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        <xsl:value-of select="/student/s[2]/@studentId"/>
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <xsl:value-of select="/student/s[2]/name"/>
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <xsl:value-of select="/student/s[2]/branch"/>
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <xsl:value-of select="/student/s[2]/age"/>
                    </td>
                </tr>
                <tr>
                    <td>
                        <xsl:value-of select="/student/s[3]/@studentId"/>
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <xsl:value-of select="/student/s[3]/name"/>
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <xsl:value-of select="/student/s[3]/branch"/>
                    </td>
                    <td>
                        <xsl:value-of select="/student/s[3]/age"/>
                    </td>
                </tr>
            </table>
        </body>
    </html>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

Example 1: output

Example 2: In this example we will select different node of XML tree and use apply template on nodes. Save the file as mentioned and run the xsl file in web browser.

XML

<!-- File name Text.xml -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl "href="Rule.xsl" ?>
<student>
    <s>
        <name>Divyank Singh Sikarwar </name>
        <branch> CSE</branch>
        <age>18</age>
    </s>
    <s>
        <name>Aniket Chauhan </name>
        <branch>CSE</branch>
        <age>20</age>
    </s>
    <s>
        <name>Simran Agarwal</name>
        <branch>CSE</branch>
        <age>23</age>
    </s>
    <s>
        <name>Abhay Chauhan</name>
        <branch>CSE</branch>
        <age>17</age>
    </s>
    <s>
        <name>Himanshu Bhatia</name>
        <branch>IT</branch>
        <age>25</age>
    </s>
</student>

XML

<!-- Rule.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>
                <h1 align="center">Students' Basic Details</h1>
                <table border="3" align="center" >
                    <tr>
                        <th>Details</th>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td>
                            <xsl:apply-templates select="/student/s[1]/name"/>
                            <xsl:apply-templates select="/student/s[1]/branch"/>
                            <xsl:apply-templates select="/student/s[1]/age"/>
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td>
                            <xsl:apply-templates select="/student/s[2]/name"/>
                            <xsl:apply-templates select="/student/s[2]/branch"/>
                            <xsl:apply-templates select="/student/s[2]/age"/>
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                        <td>
                            <xsl:apply-templates select="/student/s[3]/name"/>
                            <xsl:apply-templates select="/student/s[3]/branch"/>
                            <xsl:apply-templates select="/student/s[3]/age"/>
                        </td>
                    </tr>
                </table>
            </body>
        </html>
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="name">
    Name:
    <span style="font-family:cursive;color:#ff0000">
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </span>
    <br />
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="branch">
    Branch:
    <span style="font-family:serif;color:#0ff000">
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </span>
    <br />
    </xsl:template>
    <xsl:template match="age">
    Age: 
    <span style="font-family:fantsy;color:#0000ff">
        <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </span>
    <br />
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>