Subject: Re: [xsl] Can I grab text between two characters using XSL? From: "Alice Wei" <ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 17:39:22 -0400 |
Hi, Bryan: Looks like you are getting the dates in this example? There is something that you might want to try: <xsl:value-of select="substring-after(Richmond, VA—July, 16, 2007, '—')"/> This can give you the output of July, 16, 2007. In case you have some text after the date, say 12345, you can use <xsl:value-of selecct="substring-before(July, 16, 2007—12345, '—')"/> to get the same output of July 16, 2007. The string-before or string-after depends on the position of your dash sign. One suggestion is that in case you do have a lot of the output with the same format, set them as some sort of "variable" so you can easily extract them. I hope this helps. Good luck. Alice On Thu Sep 13 17:10 , "Bryan M" sent: >i have some xml that's being created from multiple html pages by my >CMS. for example: > > > > > > RICHMOND, VA bJuly 16, 2007 b > > Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent >mauris lectus, interdum nec, consectetuer in, viverra id, enim. >Vestibulum facilisis felis sed magna. > > >I'm using XSL to format the page, and I want to pull the date from the >page. Is there a way to just pull the text in between the b >characters? > >the xml contains a lot of pages similar but not exact to the one >above. i tried something like: > > > > select="page-xhtml//strong[contains(.,'Richmond') or >contains(.,'RICHMOND')]"> > > > >but this only works for maybe half of the pages, because it seems all >of the pages are formatted differently. the spacing seems to be >different where it says "RICHMOND, VA" and so the date shows up like >"uly 13, 2007" for some of the pages. In addition, even when this >does work, it still returns the final b character, which I don't >want. Some of the pages have another city listed altogether. > >It seems to me the easiest way would be to just pull the text between >the b characters, but I honestly have no idea how to do this >using XSLT 1.0 (the CMS uses Xalan). > >The last resort is to go change all of the HTML of the original pages, >but this would not only consume a lot of time but it will not help me >in the future when a new page is created with different spacing or >some other problem. Any other ideas are more than welcome. Thanks. > >--~------------------------------------------------------------------ >XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-listTo unsubscribe, go to: http://lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/or e-mail: xsl-list-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>--~--
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