At 2002-08-13 12:26 -0400, Wolfgang.Schreurs@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I hope someone can help me with this...
I've got 2 files, 1 XML/1 XSL. Both files are used for creating a HTML file.
XSLT and XPath questions could be better posted to the following list:
http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
since the list you've written to tends to focus on the FO vocabulary.
The XML file looks like this:
<portal_banner>
<spotlight_text>bla bla <a href="http://www.apple.com";>apple</a>
bla</spotlight_text>
<spotlight_image</spotlight_image>
<spotlight_image_href></spotlight_image_href>
</portal_banner>
Within the XSL file I want to take the line 'spotlight_text' and break it up
in a text part and a hyperlink.
The text part should contain: 'bla bla apple bla'.
I want 'apple' to be a hyperlink to (in this case) the apple website.
Essentially, then, a copy of the <spotlight_text> element? I'm confused
with your reference to "break it up...".
This
should be generated within the XSL file.
Not sure what you mean here.
I also want the total text input to
be limited to for example 60 chars.
Now *that* is going to be difficult for you to guarantee.
At the moment I got this in my XSL file:
<xsl:template name="substring_template">
<xsl:variable name="right_text_string" select="spotlight_text"/>
<xsl:value-of select="substring($right_text_string,0, 60)"/>
</xsl:template>
The value of an element node is the text characters only, none of the
element nodes.
The problem is that substring() removes the '<a href="...">...</a>' tag, but
as far as I know I have to use substring to count the chars. After these
files are processed (by Xalan), everything I get is this:
'bla bla apple bla' without the hyperlink on apple.
Does someone have a solution to get this working?
You haven't yet learned that XSLT and XPath are used to manipulate node
trees, not to manipulate markup. The markup on the way in becomes a node
tree, and the node tree you create becomes markup on the way out, but while
your stylesheet is functioning you are dealing only with nodes and never
with tags. You will not be able to algorithmically measure the markup that
will be input to or produced from your stylesheet.
If you post your desired output based on the above available input, then
someone may be able to interpret what exactly you are looking for.
I hope this helps.
.......... Ken
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