Selecting elements in XSLT based on attributes using .NET

I'm writing an application in C# using .NET Framework 3.5 to implement a series of transforms. I'm using the XslCompiledTransform class to perform the transforms. I'd like to avoid writing a bunch of for-each statements in my XSLT transforms so I'd like to select some data based on an attribute. My source data looks as follows.

<Radios>
      <Radio name="UHF1">
        <GUID protected="true">785A9539-918B-4DCE-A9AA-AC9D6275EA86</GUID>
        <DigitalAudioDeviceInstance protected="true">1</DigitalAudioDeviceInstance>
        <DigitalAudioDevicePort>2</DigitalAudioDevicePort>
        <ACIMLocalInstance protected="true">1</ACIMLocalInstance>
        <ACIMLocalPort>2</ACIMLocalPort>
        <ACIMSCCInstance protected="true">1</ACIMSCCInstance>
      </Radio>
      <Radio name="VHF1">
        <GUID protected="true">C150EA26-E53E-4366-B4A0-84BF619BFD3A</GUID>
        <DigitalAudioDeviceInstance protected="true">2</DigitalAudioDeviceInstance>
        <DigitalAudioDevicePort>2</DigitalAudioDevicePort>
        <ACIMLocalInstance protected="true">2</ACIMLocalInstance>
        <ACIMLocalPort>6</ACIMLocalPort>
        <ACIMSCCInstance pr开发者_运维百科otected="true">2</ACIMSCCInstance>
      </Radio>
    </Radios>

I'm using the following to trying to reference the "ACIMSCCInstance" from a Radio:

<xsl:value-of select="Radios/Radio/ACIMSCCInstance[@name=UHF1]"/>

This is not working however Keep in mind that "Radios" is NOT the root of the document, and I am in fact at the appropriate level where this relative path should work. Just to make sure I tried this:

<xsl:value-of select="Radios/Radio/ACIMSCCInstance"/>

Which of course gives me the "ACIMSCCInstance" value ("1") of the first radio in the list.

My Question is, why doesn't the "[@name=UHF1]" at the end of the path work at picking the radio with the name "UHF1". I've also tried this "@name='UHF1']" and no dice.

I'm using the following to trying to reference the "ACIMSCCInstance" from a Radio:

<xsl:value-of select="Radios/Radio/ACIMSCCInstance[@name=UHF1]"/>

This is not working however

My Question is, why doesn't the "[@name=UHF1]" at the end of the path work at picking the radio with the name "UHF1

The XPath expression:

Radios/Radio/ACIMSCCInstance[@name=UHF1]

selects all ACIMSCCInstance elements whose name attribute is equal to the string value of at least one of the children-elements of ACIMSCCInstance that are named UHF1. Also this ACIMSCCInstance element must be a child of a Radio element and this must be a child of an Radios element and this must be a child of the current node.

There are at least two serious mistakes in this expression:

1. There isn't any element named UHF1 in the whole document. You want to compare with the string literal 'UHF1' and string literals in XPath must be surrounded by either single or double quotes.

2. No ACIMSCCInstance element in the document has a name attribute. You actually want this test to be done for the Radio element.

Solution:

Fixing the two problems above gives us the following correct XPath expression:

Radios/Radio[@name='UHF1']/ACIMSCCInstance

Recommendation: Reading a good book on XPath is necessary for acquiring the basic knowledge necessary for working with XSLT.