Re: [Fwd: Text from mixed content but not all embedded

Use the standard XSLT coding pattern: for each element, write a template
rule that recurses downwards to process its children. Except when you don't
want to process the children:

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

<xsl:template match="endNote"/>

In fact, the only rule you need explicitly is the one for endNote; for all
the other nodes, the default built-in template rule does the right thing.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Black [mailto:andy_black@xxxxxxx] Sent: 11 March 2009 21:25
To: XSL List
Subject: [Fwd: Text from mixed content but not all embedded elements]

I have a situation with an XML portion like the following:

<secTitle>Complements of <langData lang="lVernacular">le'e</langData>
and other arguments<endnote id="nhabby">
<p>We wish to thank those who helped us.</p> </endnote> </secTitle>


Using XSLT 1.0, I want to output the text of all but what is in the embedded <endnote> element. That is, the text output I want is

Complements of le'e and other arguments

I know that if I use <xsl:copy-of select="text()"/> I can get all of the text nodes, but I want to limit it to all but what is within the <endnote> element.

Is there a way to do this in XSLT 1.0?

Thanks,

--Andy