How to remove anchor tag from html using xslt

laxmisravan · February 25th, 2011, 12:14 PM

Hi All,
I've found one in the forums.But it's stripping all the other tags too.I have <div><p></p><h2></h2></h3></h3><a href="www.google.com>google</a></div>.I just want to strip off only the <a> tag keeping it's content google as is.Can anyone help me.

I really appreciate your time.

Thanks in advance.

samjudson · February 25th, 2011, 12:22 PM

You've found one what?

Perhaps you could post what you have so far and we could see what you are doing wrong.

laxmisravan · February 25th, 2011, 12:37 PM

Hi,

I found one link :
http://help.hannonhill.com/discussio...ml-tag-in-xslt

<code>
<xsl:template name="removeTag">
<xsl:param name="html"/>
<xsl:param name="tag"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($html, concat('<',$tag))">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($html, concat('<',$tag))"/>
<xsl:call-template name="removeTag">
<xsl:with-param name="html" select="substring-after($html, '>')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$html"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</code>
But it strips all the tags.Can anyone help me in removing only one <a> tag from html.

Thanks

Martin Honnen · February 25th, 2011, 01:31 PM

Please show us a sample input document and the corresponding output you want to create with XSLT. Do you have HTML elements or do you have escaped HTML markup? If you have HTML elements and you want to copy them, with the exception of 'a' elements then simply use

Code:

<xsl:template match="@* | node()">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="a"/>

laxmisravan · February 28th, 2011, 06:33 AM

Hi!!Thanks for the reply.
I've following xml.
<doc>
<title></title>
<author></author>
<description>
<p>This is description</p>
<div classs="a">
<h2>heading</h2>
<h3>h3 heading</h3>
<a href="www.gooogle.com">google</a>
</div>
</description>
</doc>
I want to strip only the <a href="www.gooogle.com"> keeping google and the other div and h2,h3 tags as is.
Can anyone tell me how to achieve this?I really appreciate your help.

samjudson · February 28th, 2011, 06:39 AM

Martin almost got it right above. Change the 'a' template to this:

Code:

<xsl:template match="a"><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:template>

laxmisravan · February 28th, 2011, 09:53 AM

Hi,thanks for your replyIt's working.But I am newbie to this xslt.So please help me.
<doc>
<title></title>
<author></author>
<desc1><a href="www.gooogle.com">google</a>
</desc1>
<description>
<p>This is description</p>
<div classs="a">
<h2>heading</h2>
<h3>h3 heading</h3>
<a href="www.gooogle.com">google</a>
</div>
</description>
</doc>
I have to remove <a >only from <description> not from <desc1>.Please help me.
Thanks in advance.

Martin Honnen · February 28th, 2011, 09:56 AM

Instead of

Code:

<xsl:template match="a"><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:template>

use

Code:

<xsl:template match="description//a"><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:template>

Please mark up your code samples with http://p2p.wrox.com/misc.php?do=bbcode#code in further posts.

samjudson · February 28th, 2011, 09:59 AM

Then change <xsl:template match="a"> to <xsl:template match="description/a">.