Omit child nodes when selecting a node

Question

How do I select nodes without including any child nodes in my select?

For example:

 <Result>a
  <subresult>1
  </subresult>
 </Result>

From the above code when I select the result node I get the following output:

a1

I am interested in the following output:

a

Possible duplicate of [XPath to return string concatenation of qualifying child node values](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1403971/xpath-to-return-string-concatenation-of-qualifying-child-node-values) — nwellnhof, Apr 13 '16 at 09:53
Can you please show the code you are currently using to select the "Result" node? — Tim C, Apr 13 '16 at 10:20

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 13 '16 at 10:30

The a is part of a text child node of the Result element so if you want the a but not the 1 then you want the text child nodes but not any descendant text nodes. As the question is tagged as XSLT 2.0, you should be able to use <xsl:value-of select="/Result/text()" separator=""/>. With an XSLT 2.0 processor and version="2.0" this will output the string values of all text child nodes, thus if there is e.g. <Result>a<subresult>1</subresult>b</Result> you would get ab.

Omit child nodes when selecting a node

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