The XSLT <xsl:for-each> element is used to apply a template repeatedly for each node.
<xsl:for-each select = Expression> </xsl:for-each>
Select: XPath Expression to be evaluated in current context to determine the set of nodes to be iterated.
Let's take an example to creates a table of <employee> element with its attribute "id" and its child <firstname>,<lastname><nickname> and <salary> by iterating over each employee.
Employee.xml
<?xml version = "1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type = "text/xsl" href = "employee.xsl"?>
<class>
<employee id = "001">
<firstname>Aryan</firstname>
<lastname>Gupta</lastname>
<nickname>Raju</nickname>
<salary>30000</salary>
</employee>
<employee id = "024">
<firstname>Sara</firstname>
<lastname>Khan</lastname>
<nickname>Zoya</nickname>
<salary>25000</salary>
</employee>
<employee id = "056">
<firstname>Peter</firstname>
<lastname>Symon</lastname>
<nickname>John</nickname>
<salary>10000</salary>
</employee>
</class>Employee.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>
<h2>Employee
<th>First Name</th>
<th>Last Name</th>
<th>Nick Name</th>
<th>Salary</th>
</tr>
<!-- for-each processing instruction
Looks for each element matching the XPath expression
-->
<xsl:for-each select="class/employee">
<tr>
<td>
<!-- value-of processing instruction
process the value of the element matching the XPath expression
-->
<xsl:value-of select = "@id"/>
</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 = "salary"/></td>
</tr>
</xsl:for-each>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>Output:
