Re: Extracting text between nodes

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Subject: Re: Extracting text between nodes
From: "Sam Byland" <shbyland@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:16:21 -0500

Wow. Kind of rare when I check this list and find an unanswered question :-)

<td>Title Some Text and some more italic text maybe even some more<a href="http://whatever.com">And an anchor</a></td>

I want to extract only the text between the first tag and the last <a> anchor tag, without the anchor's text but including all text in child elements such as the and - "Some Text and some more italic text maybe even some more"

How can I do it with xsl?

There are a couple ways you can do this -- the best way will depend on how your HTML will vary, or will it always be like your example. I would just use a template rule as follows:

<xsl:template match="a | b[position() = 1]"/>

A stylesheet with only the above template rule in it will output the following:

_____________

Some Text and some more italic text

maybe even some more
_____________

i.e. by default the text will be copied to the output, so I only specified those elements where you did *not* want the text copied to the output to "do nothing". In this case, any a element, and only the first b element, will not get their text copied to the output....

Hope that helps,

...sam

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Extracting text between nodes Liron - 13 Feb 2008 19:18:10 -0000 Sam Byland - 13 Feb 2008 21:17:00 -0000 <= Michael Kay - 13 Feb 2008 21:38:45 -0000 Liron - 13 Feb 2008 23:11:46 -0000 David Carlisle - 13 Feb 2008 23:21:53 -0000 Sam Byland - 14 Feb 2008 02:13:41 -0000

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