Thank you very much, Graydon and Dimitre, for your replies! Your
solutions work very well and deepened my understanding of XSLT.
There is just one little problem I encountered: The data of the external
source comes in a particular namespace. Since I do not want to have the
namespace declaration in the output, I use @exclude-result-prefixes in
the <xsl:stylesheet> element, which works as expected for the rest of
the output produced by my stylesheet and also for the <title> and
<subtitle> elements produced by your solutions. However, on the <i>
elements, the namespace declaration suddenly shows up, which baffles me.
Do you know why that is? And how do I get rid of it?
Best,
Wolfhart
On 14.08.20 23:08, Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com wrote:
XSLT 2.0:
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="node()|@*" mode="copy-lowercase">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*" mode="#current"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="title/text()[contains(., ':')]">
<title>
<xsl:apply-templates select="preceding-sibling::node()"
mode="copy-lowercase"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="lower-case(substring-before(., ':'))"/>
</title>
<subtitle>
<xsl:copy-of select="lower-case(substring-after(., ':'))"/>
<xsl:apply-templates select="following-sibling::node()"
mode="copy-lowercase"/>
</subtitle>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()"/>
<xsl:template match="title//text()"
mode="copy-lowercase"><xsl:value-of
select="lower-case(.)"/></xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
When applied on the provided XML document:
<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>
the wanted result is produced:
<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>
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 7:16 PM Wolfhart Totschnig
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<mailto:xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>> wrote:
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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