Using XSL to select specific page elements for RSS

[rockyroad]

Hello,

I have read somewhere that it is possible to use XSL to grab only specific information to populate the <description> element for an RSS feed.

Consider an example where a query from a database is looking at something like this and then outputting as XML in RSS format:

<p class="RSSDescription">Some paragraph suitable for RSS Description</p>
<p>The remaining paragraphs in an article, not to be in the feed description</p>

My question is, how can XSL be utilized to select only those <p> elements with the "RSSDescription" class? Right now my other option is breaking the specific paragraphs out into a differnt database field and filtering on the query, but this seems counter-intuitive and certainly cumbersome on the content generation side.

Any thoughts?

Thanks, and Happy New Year!

RR

 

[tsuji]

With proper context node idenitied, something like this whatever it would inspire you because the question is deficit to start with.
[tt]<xsl:value-of select="p[@class='RSSDescription']" />[/tt]

 

[rockyroad]

OK..... ... I think your post will help. I am kind of an XSL newbie, thus why I was asking in this forum. Thanks.

 

[k5tm]

RR,

First, there is a decent online tutorial here for learning XSLT.

Second, you have show only the lowest level of your document tree (i.e. the <p> elements). In order for tsuji or me or anyone else to provide better help we need a better problem statement.

Tom Morrison

http://www.liant.com