Dear list,
I would like to ask for your help with the following mixed-content
problem. I am receiving, from an external source, data in the following
form:
<title>THE TITLE OF THE BOOK WITH SOME <i>ITALICS</i> AND SOME MORE
WORDS: THE SUBTITLE OF THE BOOK WITH SOME <i>ITALICS</i></title>
What I would like to do is
1) separate the title from the subtitle (i.e., divide the data at the
colon) and put each in a separate element node;
2) all the while maintaining the <i> markup;
3) and perform certain string manipulations on all of the text nodes;
for the purposes of this post, I will use the example of converting
upper-case to lower-case.
So the desired output is the following:
<title>the title of the book with some <i>italics</i> and some more
words</title>
<subtitle>the subtitle of the book with some <i>italics</i></subtitle>
How can this be done?
I know that I can perform string manipulations while maintaining the <i>
markup with templates, i.e., <xsl:template match="text()"/> and
<xsl:template match="i"/>. But in this case I do not know how to divide
the data at the colon. And I know that I can divide the data at the
colon with <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(.,': ')"/>, but then I
loose the <i> markup. So I am at a loss.
Thanks in advance for your help!
Wolfhart
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