At 2009-06-30 13:30 -0400, Sharon_Harris(_at_)ultimatesoftware(_dot_)com wrote:
I am trying to wrap specific text in a string within HTML tags. For
example, if a strings contains the word "Note:", then I want to enclose
this word within a set of bold tags (<b>Note:</b>). I do not have control
over the XML data source and cannot modify the structure/schema.
I have tried using the replace function to search for the specific text and
then replace it with a defined variable.
The replace() function only works with strings, not with nodes.
The variable contains the text
wrapped within the HTML tags. Unfortunately, only the content within the
variable is getting pulled and the HTML tags are being ignored.
Correct ... because the arguments to replace() are cast to strings.
Can anyone
tell me how to get the tags added as well during the search and replace?
By analyzing the string rather than using replace.
XML excerpt:
<Row>
<ReleaseNote>Before: The application did this. Now: The application does
this. Note: The application may also do this.</ReleaseNote>
</Row>
<Row>
<ReleaseNote>Before: The application did not do this. Now: The
application does this.</ReleaseNote>
</Row>
XSLT excerpt:
<xsl:variable name="NoteBold"><b>Note:</b></xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="BeforeBold"><b>Before:</b></xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="NowBold"><b>Now:</b></xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="text()">
<xsl:value-of select="replace(replace(replace(.,'Note:',$NoteBold),
'Before:',$BeforeBold), 'Now:', $NowBold)"/>
</xsl:template>
This is an incorrect approach because you are matching *all* text
nodes in the *entire* document and doing the replace on *every* piece
of text you have.
I hope the example below helps ... you have a very straightforward
requirement because you are only wrapping text with a bold element
node, not massaging the text.
. . . . . . . . . . . Ken
T:\ftemp>type sharon.xml
<test>
<Row>
<ReleaseNote>Before: The application did this. Now: The application does
this. Note: The application may also do this.</ReleaseNote>
</Row>
<Row>
<ReleaseNote>Before: The application did not do this. Now: The
application does this.</ReleaseNote>
</Row>
</test>
T:\ftemp>call xslt2 sharon.xml sharon.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><test>
<Row>
<ReleaseNote><b>Before:</b> The application did this. <b>Now:</b>
The applica
tion does
this. <b>Note:</b> The application may also do this.</ReleaseNote>
</Row>
<Row>
<ReleaseNote><b>Before:</b> The application did not do this.
<b>Now:</b> The
application does this.</ReleaseNote>
</Row>
</test>
T:\ftemp>type sharon.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="2.0">
<xsl:template match="ReleaseNote">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:analyze-string select="." regex="Before:|Note:|Now:">
<xsl:matching-substring>
<b><xsl:value-of select="."/></b>
</xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:non-matching-substring>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:non-matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="@*|node()"><!--identity for all other nodes-->
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\ftemp>
--
Possible July/August XSLT/XQuery/XSL-FO training in Oakland/CA/USA
Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/
Training tools: Comprehensive interactive XSLT/XPath 1.0/2.0 video
Video lesson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrNjJCh7Ppg&fmt=18
Video overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTiodiij6gE&fmt=18
G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman(_at_)CraneSoftwrights(_dot_)com
Male Cancer Awareness Nov'07 http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/bc
Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal
--~------------------------------------------------------------------
XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
To unsubscribe, go to: http://lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/
or e-mail: <mailto:xsl-list-unsubscribe(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
--~--