Re: [xsl] Extracting text between nodes

["Sam Byland" <shbyland@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow.  Kind of rare when I check this list and find an unanswered question 
:-)

> <td><font><b>Title</b><br/>Some Text<i> and some more italic text</i><b> 
> maybe even some more</b><a href="http://whatever.com";>And an 
> anchor</a></font></td>
>
> I want to extract only the text between the first <br/> tag and the last 
> <a> anchor tag, without the anchor's text but including all text in child 
> elements such as the <i> and <b> - "Some Text and some more italic text 
> maybe even some more"
>
> How can I do it with xsl?

There are a couple ways you can do this -- the best way will depend on how 
your HTML will vary, or will it always be like your example.  I would just 
use a template rule as follows:

<xsl:template match="a | b[position() = 1]"/>

A stylesheet with only the above template rule in it will output the 
following:

_____________

                       Some Text and some more italic text

maybe even some more
_____________


i.e. by default the text will be copied to the output, so I only specified 
those elements where you did *not* want the text copied to the output to "do 
nothing".  In this case, any a element, and only the first b element, will 
not get their text copied to the output....

Hope that helps,

...sam