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Re: How do I capture the text "around" a node?

2002-09-24 07:13:28
Hi,

Text handling like this is always (imho) a little confusing.  The simple
answer is to use xsl:apply-templates as this will hit all the child
text() nodes, not just the first(ala value-of).
 
It is very confusing.

While apply-templates works as you said, the problem i have is that I
want to remove the chars (), hence I tried value-of

As a good-practice rule, you should always use apply-templates over
value-of (where possible) for a number of reasons, with the biggest
probably being that template match=text() gets called.

I'm very new to this and have been struggling through basically
finding what resources I can on the net.

I'm reluctant to purchase a book as a reference as I understand that
somethings are not set in concrete yet.

With the cost of books these days I find it hard to justify purchasing
them only to find that it hasn't answered my questions.




Regards,

Pete.

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