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Use value-of to get the size of text

File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Book>
 <Chapter number="c1">the first chapter</Chapter>
 <Chapter number="c2">the second chapter</Chapter>
 <Chapter number="c3">the third chapter</Chapter>
 <Chapter number="c4">the fourth chapter</Chapter>
 <Chapter number="c5">the fifth chapter</Chapter>
</Book>

File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet 
 version="1.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" >

  <xsl:template match="/">
        <xsl:apply-templates select="/Book/Chapter" />
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="Chapter">
    <xsl:if test="position()=2">

      <paragraph>
        The text the Chapter element node contains is '<xsl:value-of select="." />'.
      </paragraph>
    </xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><paragraph>
        The text the Chapter element node contains is 'the second chapter'.
      </paragraph>

 

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