replace an xml tag used inside text content of element

drewInJapan · Sep 16, 2009

I've been beating my head against the wall for hours on this.
(note: I'm forced to use xslt 1.0 and I can't alter the way the xml being transformed is formatted)

Given the following xml doc:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SEGMENTS>
 <HIT NO="1" >
  <FIELD NAME="title">
   <key>Ethics</key> in Your Org<sep/>
  </FIELD>
 </HIT>
 <HIT NO="2" >
  <FIELD NAME="title">
   Ways to Promote <key>Ethics</key><sep/>
  </FIELD>
 </HIT>
</SEGMENTS>

I have to iterate through and output the titles while replacing the 'key' tags with html 'span' tags and the 'sep' tags with text ellipses, such as the following:

Code:

<span class="keyword">Ethics</span> in Your Org...
Ways to Promote <span class="keyword">Ethics</span>...

I won't waste space showing the multiple failed paths I've taken up to now trying to solve this unless it might be of help.
Any kind souls out there have any suggestions?

Thanks,
-Drew

tsuji · Sep 16, 2009

Like this.
[tt]
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="[ignore]

http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform

[/ignore]">
<xsl

utput method="html" omit-xml-declaration="yes" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body>
<xsl:apply-templates select="SEGMENTS/HIT/FIELD[@NAME='title']" />
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="FIELD[@NAME='title']">
<xsl:apply-templates select="text()|key|sep" mode="title" />
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="key" mode="title">
<span class="keyword"><xsl:value-of select="." /></span>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="sep" mode="title">
<xsl:text>... </xsl:text>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="text()" mode="title">
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
[/tt]

drewInJapan · Sep 17, 2009

Thanks so much Tsuji!

This worked like a charm and was far cleaner than any of the solutions I came up with.

-Drew

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replace an xml tag used inside text content of element

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