I am busy with a website where customers can edit there profile. They can also use some kind of editor which produces html tags that will be wrapped around the text.

The xml looks something like this:

<Profile>
<p>This is a <b>profile</b> text blablalbla</p><br/>
</Profile>

Now I am creating some kind of master page with links to detail pages. On the detailpages the html has to be output as html code (using disable output-escaping).

On the masterpage I just want this as output:
"This is a profile text blablalbla"

So all the html tags must be ignored or stripped out.


Is this possible with xslt?

Thanks in advance,

M. Smit

Problem solved:

Found this template and works fine...

<xsl:template name="strip-tags">
    <xsl:param name="text"/>
    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="contains($text, '&lt;')">
            <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text, '&lt;')"/>
            <xsl:call-template name="strip-tags">
                    <xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text, '&gt;')"/>
            </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:value-of select="$text"/>
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Use it this way:

<xsl:call-template name="strip-tags">
    <xsl:with-param name="text" select="Profile"/>
</xsl:call-template>

Sure, just do

<xsl:value-of select="Profile"/>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference