Parsing text with link from xml with XSLT

[Simon Skov Boisen]

Hi,

I have an xml document like this:

<paragraph>hello what are you doing? searching on <link url="http://
www.google.com">google</link>?</paragraph>

how can I extract data to xhtml from it so that it will be formatted
as

hello what are you doing? searching on <a href="http://
www.google.com">google</a>?

I've tried various different methods but I can't seem to combine the
text in the <paragraph> with the <link> so either I select the text:
"hello what are you doing? searching on google?" or I get the link <a
href="http://www.google.com">google</a>

Hope someone can help, thanks in advance!

Best Regards

Simon, Denmark

 

[Johannes Koch]

I have an xml document like this:

<paragraph>hello what are you doing? searching on <link url="http://
www.google.com">google</link>?</paragraph>

how can I extract data to xhtml from it so that it will be formatted
as

hello what are you doing? searching on <a href="http://
www.google.com">google</a>?

I've tried various different methods but I can't seem to combine the
text in the <paragraph> with the <link> so either I select the text:
"hello what are you doing? searching on google?" or I get the link <a
href="http://www.google.com">google</a>

So you didn't try the most obvious one: xsl.apply-templates.

<xsl:template match="paragraph">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="link">
<a href="{@url}">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</a>
</xsl:template>

 

[Simon Skov Boisen]

So you didn't try the most obvious one: xsl.apply-templates.

<xsl:template match="paragraph">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="link">
<a href="{@url}">
<xsl:apply-templates/>
</a>
</xsl:template>

Thanks for you help Johannes, I only recently started working with xsl
and I hadn't really been able to figure out how apply template worked,
so I hadn't tried it much.

Appriciate your help, thank you!

Simon