XPath - nó raiz
A seguir estão as maneiras de obter o elemento raiz e fazer o processamento posteriormente.
Use curinga
Usar /* , expressão curinga para selecionar o nó raiz.
<p><xsl:value-of select = "name(/*)"/></p>
Nome de uso
Usar /class, para selecionar o nó raiz por nome.
<p><xsl:value-of select = "name(/class)"/></p>
Use o nome com curinga
Usar /class/*, selecione todos os elementos no nó raiz.
<p><xsl:value-of select = "name(/class/*)"/></p>
Exemplo
Neste exemplo, criamos um documento XML de amostra, students.xml e seu documento de folha de estilo students.xsl que usa as expressões XPath.
A seguir está o XML de amostra usado.
students.xml
<?xml version = "1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type = "text/xsl" href = "students.xsl"?>
<class>
<student rollno = "393">
<firstname>Dinkar</firstname>
<lastname>Kad</lastname>
<nickname>Dinkar</nickname>
<marks>85</marks>
</student>
<student rollno = "493">
<firstname>Vaneet</firstname>
<lastname>Gupta</lastname>
<nickname>Vinni</nickname>
<marks>95</marks>
</student>
<student rollno = "593">
<firstname>Jasvir</firstname>
<lastname>Singh</lastname>
<nickname>Jazz</nickname>
<marks>90</marks>
</student>
</class>
students.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>
<h3>Root Element. Xpath expression = "/*"</h3>
<p><xsl:value-of select = "name(/*)"/></p>
<h3>Root Element. Xpath expression = "/class"</h3>
<p> <xsl:value-of select = "name(/class)"/></p>
<h3>Details of each Students. Xpath expression = "/class/*"</h3>
<table border = "1">
<tr bgcolor = "#9acd32">
<th>Roll No</th>
<th>First Name</th>
<th>Last Name</th>
<th>Nick Name</th>
<th>Marks</th>
</tr>
<xsl:for-each select = "/class/*">
<tr>
<td><xsl:value-of select = "@rollno"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select = "firstname"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select = "lastname"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select = "nickname"/></td>
<td><xsl:value-of select = "marks"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>