Process all nested child node

tims · April 8th, 2008, 04:45 AM

Hi,
I want to remove node tags to extract text separated by space for each node for a given context.
<keywords>
 <acronym style="color:red;font-style:italic" class="indexterm>" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">main text <acronym style="color:red;font-style:italic" class="indexterm>">first text</acronym></acronym>
 <acronym style="color:red;font-style:italic" class="indexterm>" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">second<acronym style="color:red;font-style:italic" class="indexterm>">third</acronym></acronym>
 </keywords>

The output should be :
<Keywords><keyword>main text first text second third</keyword></keywords>

I need help on this urgrently.
Thanks in advance.
Tims

mhkay · April 8th, 2008, 05:23 AM

In XSLT 2.0, try

<xsl:template match="keywords">
 <keywords><keyword>
 <xsl:value-of select=".//text()/string()"/>
 </keyword></keywords>
</xsl:template>

In 1.0, try

<xsl:template match="keywords">
 <keywords><keyword>
 <xsl:for-each select=".//text()"/>
 <xsl:value-of select="."/>
 <xsl:if test="position()!=last()">
 <xsl:text> </xsl:text>
 </xsl:if>
 </xsl:for-each>
 </keyword></keywords>
</xsl:template>

>I need help on this urgrently.

I usually refrain from answering urgent questions - experience shows that people are often in too much of a hurry to study the answer with care. I've made an exception this time, please don't prove my theory correct.

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

tims · April 8th, 2008, 05:49 AM

Hi,
Thanks Michael for the quick response. It helped me. :)

swapbpl · April 8th, 2008, 07:04 AM

I wanted the html tags to reformed to xhtml standard using xslt.
Like

<html>
<li>

some para 
<li>text<li>[list]<li>some sentence </li>
<li> another text </li>
</ul>
</li></li>
</html>

Is valid in html but Invalid in xhtml
It should re formatted using xslt

<html>
<li>
some para </li>
<li>text[list]<li>some sentence </li>
<li> another text </li>
</ul></li>
</html>

Help will be appreciated. thanks in Advance

samjudson · April 8th, 2008, 07:45 AM

XSLT cannot easily process invalid XML - therefore we recommend fixing the HTML before inputting into XSLT - try something like HTMLTidy (or JTidy for its Java counterpart).

Also, this post has nothing to do with the above post. Please start a new post in the future.

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