Re: [xsl] Using xsl:variable and replace() to remove specific characters.

[Richard Corfield <Richard.Corfield@xxxxxxx>]

Thankyou to everyone who replied to me. Sorry for my silence; I was having 
some difficulties posting to the list.

It looks like a template matching on aff/text() will be the best approach 
for me. It never occurred to me to write a template to match the text() 
nodes only.

 In general stripping certain types of punctuation from the end of a 
text() node is going to be the correct thing to do, although there will 
still be exceptions; I will still have a problem with something like this:

<aff id="aj267072af4"><label>4</label>European Space Agency, 
<italic>XMM</italic>-<italic>Newton</italic> Science Operations Centre, 
European Space Astronomy Centre, Apartado 50727, Villafranca del Castillo, 
28080 Madrid, Spain</aff>

... where the comma following 'Agency' is going to be lost. However what I 
have working already is a great improvement on the previous state of 
affairs.

And here is the rationale for why I would want to strip this punctuation 
at all:

The xml I'm working with is used as the source for pdf, xml & html end 
products. Unfortunately during the production of the new xml, it's 
required that the e-mail addresses held in the <ext-link> elements are 
stripped out. This means that semi-colons, commas and other punctuation is 
then left behind and this looks especially bad when you have multiple 
e-mail addressed separated by commas. My personal opinion is that this 
punctuation should not be present in the xml and that the processes that 
create the pdf & html should be adjusted to insert the punctuation where 
required based on the structure of the xml, however that is not within my 
sphere of influence... 

Regards

Richard



> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Richard Corfield [mailto:richard.corfield@xxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 28 April 2008 10:26
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [xsl] Using xsl:variable and replace() to remove 
> > specific characters.

> > What I'm trying to do is process some xml of which this is a fragment:
> > 
> > <aff id="aj266199af2">
> >   <label>2</label>National Radio Astronomy Observatory, 
> > Chile<xref ref-type="fn" 
> > rid="aj266199afn4"><sup>9</sup></xref>; <ext-link 
> > ext-link-type="email" id="aj266199em4">email address 
> > here</ext-link> </aff>
> > 
> > <!-- snip -->
> > <fn id="aj266199afn4">
> >   <label>9</label>
> >   <p>The National Radio Astronomy Observatory is a facility 
> > of the National Science Foundation operated under cooperative 
> > agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.
> >   </p>
> > </fn>
> > 
> > 
> > The problem is the trailing semi-colon between the <xref> & 
> > <ext-link> elements.


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