XSLT - removing a tag from within text
 

Hi All,

This should be so easy but is so incredibly not easy that im about
ready to kill myself.

What i have is this xml:
<node>
<start_time>00:00:<span class="hit">11</span></start_time>
</node>

and i just want it to output:
00:00:00

Luckily for me XSLT is ridiculous, making this problem unsolvable.

i've tried:
fn:substring-before(start_time, "<")
but of course, thats far too straight forward so it doesnt work.

I've tried:
<xsl:apply-templates select="start_time"/>
<xsl:template match="span">
</xsl:template>
but of course, that, although esoteric, doesn't work either

I've tried string(start_time), i've even tried to do fn:escape-uri and
tried to replace those values but that doesnt work either!

Please someone for the love of all that is good in this world help
me!!!!!

Re: XSLT - removing a tag from within text
 

Sorry, the output should be 00:00:11 in that case.

Re: XSLT - removing a tag from within text
 

gwoodhouse@gmail.com wrote:

> What i have is this xml:
> <node>
> <start_time>00:00:<span class="hit">11</span></start_time>
> </node>
>
> and i just want it to output:
> 00:00:00

This is easy:

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

<xsl:output method="text"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="node/start_time"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


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Re: XSLT - removing a tag from within text
 

Martin Honnen a écrit :
> gwoodhouse@gmail.com wrote:
>
>> What i have is this xml:
>> <node>
>> <start_time>00:00:<span class="hit">11</span></start_time>
>> </node>
>>
>> and i just want it to output:
>> 00:00:00
>
> This is easy:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="1.0">
>
> <xsl:output method="text"/>
>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <xsl:apply-templates select="node/start_time"/>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>

this one should work too:

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

<xsl:output method="text"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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Re: XSLT - removing a tag from within text
 

Ok, so, i can't include the whole code or else my company would beat
the hell out of me. Here is a more complete and realworld snippet:

<transcript>
<chapter>
<chapter_hitcount><![CDATA[1 hit]]></chapter_hitcount>
<start_time><![CDATA[01:11:04]]></start_time>
<end_time><![CDATA[01:<span class="hit">22</span>:45]]></end_time>
<abstract> You can see here how you would want <span
class="hit">22</span> to be displayed</abstract>
</chapter>
</transcript>

xslt:
<xsl:template match='chapter'>
<span class="timespan">
(<xsl:apply-templates select="start_time"/> - <xsl:apply-templates
select="end_time"/>)
</span>
<div class="abstract">
<span class="abstractLead">Summary:</span> <xsl:apply-templates
select="abstract"/>
</div>
</xsl:template>

In this example i would want the output to display the "abstract"
output with the span tag, i would want the "end_time" tag to display
without the <span> tag.

Re: XSLT - removing a tag from within text
 

Philippe Poulard wrote:
> Martin Honnen a écrit :
>> gwoodhouse@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> What i have is this xml:
>>> <node>
>>> <start_time>00:00:<span class="hit">11</span></start_time>
>>> </node>
>>>
>>> and i just want it to output:
>>> 00:00:00

> this one should work too:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="1.0">
>
> <xsl:output method="text"/>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>

That would output additional white space.

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Re: XSLT - removing a tag from within text
 

gwoodhouse@gmail.com wrote:
> Ok, so, i can't include the whole code or else my company would beat
> the hell out of me. Here is a more complete and realworld snippet:
>
> <transcript>
> <chapter>
> <chapter_hitcount><![CDATA[1 hit]]></chapter_hitcount>
> <start_time><![CDATA[01:11:04]]></start_time>
> <end_time><![CDATA[01:<span class="hit">22</span>:45]]></end_time>
> <abstract> You can see here how you would want <span
> class="hit">22</span> to be displayed</abstract>
> </chapter>
> </transcript>
>
> xslt:
> <xsl:template match='chapter'>
> <span class="timespan">
> (<xsl:apply-templates select="start_time"/> - <xsl:apply-templates
> select="end_time"/>)
> </span>
> <div class="abstract">
> <span class="abstractLead">Summary:</span> <xsl:apply-templates
> select="abstract"/>
> </div>
> </xsl:template>
>
> In this example i would want the output to display the "abstract"
> output with the span tag, i would want the "end_time" tag to display
> without the <span> tag.

Well that is completely different from what you posted before and in the
sample above the 'abstract' element contains a 'span' element while the
'end_time' element does not contain a 'span' element, instead it
contains pure text with escaped markup.

The 'abstract' element can easily be solved with XSLT

<xsl:template match="abstract">
<div class="{local-name()}">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</div>
</xsl:template>

then you need to add a template matching span that copies that

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

The 'end_time' element is difficult. If I had a choice I would solve it
with XSLT 2.0 and David Carlisle's HTML parser done in XSLT
(http://www.dcarlisle.demon.co.uk/htmlparse.xsl) but I don't know
whether that is an option for you.



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Re: XSLT - removing a tag from within text
 

Yeah, problem is none of that works.

There are lots of places where many many values need to print out a
<span> tag.

What i want is a way of removing <span class="hit"> from the output of
ONE tag.

Please someone tell me there is a way of doing that, not by changing
the way everything else works, just by removing the damn <span> tag
from one output.

Surely, SURELY, XSLT can manage to create a variable from "a bit of
<span>text</span>" that contains "a bit of text".

Surely?!?!

Re: XSLT - removing a tag from within text
 

So, basically, i want this:

end_time contents: 00:00:<span class="hit">11</span>

<xsl:variable name="safeend">
<xsl:call-template name="removeSpan">
<xsl:with-param name="variable" select="end_time"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:template name="removeSpan">
<xsl:param name="variable"/>
<xsl:value-of select="fn:substring-before($variable, '<')"/>
</xsl:template>

with safeend being: 00:00:11

Yes it's in a CDATA tag but that doesn't seem to change anything at
all.

Re: XSLT - removing a tag from within text
 

gwoodhouse@gmail.com wrote:
> Yeah, problem is none of that works.

None of what?

> There are lots of places where many many values need to print out a
> <span> tag.
>
> What i want is a way of removing <span class="hit"> from the output of
> ONE tag.

http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-replace
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/r....html#d9701e43


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