Re: [xsl] Extracting text between nodes

[Liron <magilam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Thank you for the reply.

Unfortunately, this line doesn't work under my xslt engine (libxslt under 
PHP). I guess it only supports 1.0
Any ideas?

btw: I need this transformation because the source html contains lots of 
text under one node which also has child nodes.
The only way to extract the relevant data is to get all the text between two 
elements which are certain delimiters for the desired text.

Thank you

> In 2.0, assuming <font> is the context node, I think the most direct
> translation of your requirement is
>
> .//text()[. >> current()/br[1] and . << current()/a[last()]]
>
> Note that this gives you a sequence of text nodes, if you want to turn 
> this
> into a string, use string-join(). Remember to escape < with &lt;
>
> But I do wonder how general-purpose this is; are there lots of instances
> like this, and do they vary much?
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/