how to get text with xpath from bad xml?

I have a "bad xml structure" file:

<cars>
    <car>Toyota
        <country>Japan</coutry>
        ....
    </car>
</cars>

How 开发者_开发问答to correctly get the right word (Toyota) using Xpath? I tried:

<xsl:value-of select = "cars/car/text()"/>.

It works, but I think there are more appropriate methods. Thanks.

Use:

/cars/car/text()[1]

or if you want to discard most of the white space in the text node selected above, use:

normalize-space(/cars/car/text()[1])

Do note that while in XSLT 1.0 <xsl:value-of> outputs the string valu only of the first node of the node-set selected by the expression in the select attribute, <xsl:copy-of> will output all the nodes in the node-set. In XSLT 2.0 even <xsl:value-of> outputs all the nodes in the node-set.

Therefore, for purposes of portability, upgradability and simply for avoiding errors, it is better to specify which exactlyy node from the nodeset is to be output -- even when using <xsl:value-of>