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).
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.
cheers
andrew
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From: Peter Lavender [mailto:plaven(_at_)bigpond(_dot_)net(_dot_)au]
Sent: 24 September 2002 14:27
To: XSL-List(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] How do I capture the text "around" a node?
Hi Everyone,
I'm beating my head against a wall here, and haven't been able to work
out how to capture the text around a node.
Here is the snippet of xml:
<book isbn="88888">
This book <title>Lord of the rings</title> is often misquoted.
...
</book>
Now I have tried to work out how, but failed miserably and would
appreciate some help, or even better an explaination as to why/how to
do this.
Here is my attempt to do it:
<xsl:template match="book">
<fo:block font-size="12pt" font-family="serif"
line-height="16pt">
<xsl:variable name="txtFirst" select='substring-before(
/book/text(), "(" )' />
<xsl:value-of select="$txtFirst" />
<xsl:value-of select="title" />
<xsl:text>After this is something:</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="/child::title/child::text()" />
</fo:block>
</xsl:template>
When I do just variable name="txt" select="text()" i only get all text
up to the title tag. How can I get the text after the title node?
Regards,
Pete.
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