How can I take HTML content in XSLT?

nadavvin · September 4th, 2006, 04:20 AM

<xsl:value-of> tag is ignore from sub tag.

For example I have this XML:

Code:

 <?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
          <content>
                  [u]Hello World</u>
                   hi all
          </content>
</root>

How do I get all the content of content?
The <xsl:value-of> is get only "hi all".

Thanks for your help
Nadav

asearle · September 4th, 2006, 04:43 AM

Hi Nadav,

Try this link ...

http://www.jenitennison.com/xslt/merging-docs.xml

Jeni explains the various possibilities very well.

I hope that helps? :-)

Cheers,
Alan.

mhkay · September 4th, 2006, 05:08 AM

The instruction

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

with root as your context node will return "Hello World hi all" plus some whitespace.

If you want to retain the element node, use <xsl:copy-of>

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

nadavvin · September 4th, 2006, 08:58 AM

Thanks, It's work!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:copy-of select="/root/content" />

</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

nadavvin · September 6th, 2006, 02:44 AM

The problem is that the content is not HTML tag and copy-of is copy it also.

Is there a way to copy the content of a tag without the tag itself?

joefawcett · September 6th, 2006, 03:07 AM

Can you show an example of your output given the example file above?
Either you want the elements as well or you don't, or you want to replace them with new ones, which is it?

--

Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

mhkay · September 6th, 2006, 03:25 AM

I guess that by the content of a tag you mean the stuff between the tags. Correctly speaking, given <a>xyz</a> there are two tags, whose content is "a" and "/a" respectively. It's better to talk about element nodes and their children - the input to an XSLT transformation is a tree of nodes, not a string containing angle brackets. Using the right terminology will help you find the right information.

If you want to copy the children of an element node, and that element is the current context node, use <xsl:copy-of select="child::node()"/>

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

nadavvin · September 6th, 2006, 09:18 AM

If you want to copy the children of an element node, and that element is the current context node, use <xsl:copy-of select="child::node()"/>

yes this is what I want.
Sorry for the misunderstood.

Nadav