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File: Data.xml
<employee hireDate="09/01/1998">
  <last>Smith</last>
  <first>Joe</first>
  <salary>95000</salary>
</employee>


File: Transform.xslt
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
  version="1.0">
  <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" />

  <xsl:template match="employee">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@hireDate" /><!-- note space -->
    <xsl:apply-templates select="first" />
    <xsl:apply-templates select="last" />
  </xsl:template>
  

</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:

09/01/1998JoeSmith








5.66.select
5.66.1.select element by index
5.66.2.select value from attribute
5.66.3.select="@*|node()"
5.66.4.select="state[not(@founding)]"
5.66.5.select=count(document(other.xml)/eu/other/state)
5.66.6.select element by attribute value
5.66.7.Reference text after selecting tags and attributes
5.66.8.select element and attribute
5.66.9.match parent and select children
5.66.10.Match parent and select grand-children
5.66.11.Match a certain element
5.66.12.select attribute
5.66.13.Get value from an element with value-of and select
5.66.14.Select element out
5.66.15.select="operand[(. < 50) and (. > 30)]"
5.66.16.Selecting elements based on values of other ones.