RE: [xsl] How do I capture the text "around" a node?

["Andrew Welch" <awelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Text handling like this is always (imho) a little confusing.  The simple
answer is to use xsl:apply-templates as this will hit all the child
text() nodes, not just the first(ala value-of).

As a good-practice rule, you should always use apply-templates over
value-of (where possible) for a number of reasons, with the biggest
probably being that template match=text() gets called.

cheers
andrew 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Lavender [mailto:plaven@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 24 September 2002 14:27
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] How do I capture the text "around" a node?
> 
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I'm beating my head against a wall here, and haven't been able to work
> out how to capture the text around a node.
> 
> Here is the snippet of xml:
> 
> <book isbn="88888">
> This book <title>Lord of the rings</title> is often misquoted.
> 
> ...
> 
> </book>
> 
> Now I have tried to work out how, but failed miserably and would
> appreciate some help, or even better an explaination as to why/how to
> do this.
> 
> Here is my attempt to do it:
> 
> <xsl:template match="book">
>       
> 	<fo:block font-size="12pt" font-family="serif" 
> line-height="16pt">
>             
> <xsl:variable name="txtFirst" select='substring-before( 
> /book/text(), "(" )' />
>             <xsl:value-of select="$txtFirst" />
>             <xsl:value-of select="title" />
>             <xsl:text>After this is something:</xsl:text>
>             <xsl:value-of select="/child::title/child::text()" />
>   
>      </fo:block>
>         
> </xsl:template>
> 
> When I do just variable name="txt" select="text()" i only get all text
> up to the title tag.  How can I get the text after the title node?
> 
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Pete.
> 
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