I suspect your real requirement is not to process the second text node,
but to process all the text nodes. Use the standard:
<xsl:apply-templates/>
which will process all the child nodes, in turn. To do non-standard
processing of the text nodes, do, for example:
<xsl:template match="text()">
<span><xsl:value-of select="."/></span>
</xsl:template>
But usually you don't need to define a template rule for text nodes,
because the built-in rule copies the text node to the result tree, which
is usually what you want to happen.
Try to avoid using xsl:value-of when handling elements that may contain
child elements. It rarely does what you want. Use xsl:apply-templates
instead.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael(_dot_)H(_dot_)Kay(_at_)ntlworld(_dot_)com
work: Michael(_dot_)Kay(_at_)softwareag(_dot_)com
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[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of
Spenser Kao
Sent: 26 March 2003 23:05
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Cc: 'Spenser Kao'
Subject: [xsl] Picking up the 2nd part text after child element
Hi,
If I have an element having text split into two parts with a
child element in between, how do I pick up the second part
text after the child element?
Please see attached files for xml instance, stylesheet and
test output.
I expected to pick up the multiple parts of text and the
child element's text in the order they appear, but lost the
second part text after the child element. Any suggestion will
be appreciated.
Regards,
Spenser
1) The xml instance file --
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?>
<paras> <p>First paragraph starts, <i>Italic text here</i>,
first paragraph ends.</p>
<p>Second paragraph starts, <i>Italic text here</i>, second
paragraph ends.</p>
</paras>
2) The stylesheet file -
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:template match="/paras">
<xsl:apply-templates select="p"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="p">
One para --
<xsl:if test="text()">
p: <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="node()">
<xsl:apply-templates select="i"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="i">
i: <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
3) The test output.
One para --
p: First paragraph starts,
i: Italic text here
One para --
p: Second paragraph starts,
i: Italic text here
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