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These options would insert the following code in your XSLT page:

4

Click OK.

5

To display the value of each node in the XML file, apply a repeating region to the element containing the dynamic

text (for example, an HTML table row or a paragraph).

For more information and examples on selecting nodes to return a value, see the

section in the

Reference panel.

Select a node to repeat

You can select a node to repeat over and, optionally, to filter the results. In the XPath Expression Builder dialog box,
your selected content will be wrapped inside an

block. If you have not selected content, the

block will be entered at the insertion point of your cursor.

1

Double-click the XML data placeholder on the page to open the XPath Expression Builder.

2

In the XPath Expression Builder (Repeating Region) dialog box, select the item to repeat in the XML schema tree.

The correct XPath expression is written in the Expression box to identify the node.

Note: Repeating items are identified with a Plus (+) symbol in the XML schema tree.

In the following example, you want to repeat each

item

node within the XML file.

When you click OK, the following code is inserted in your XSLT page:

Content goes here

In some cases, you may want to work with a subset of the repeating nodes—for example, you may only want items
where an attribute has a specific value. In this case, you need to create a filter.

September 4, 2007