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[A Amitkashaw]

Hi Everyone.

I'm having a few problems with the following XSL statement -

<xsl:template match="htm:div[text='Fred's List of Things:']"> <xsl:for-each select="../following-sibling::*/child::htm:i[text='Guitars:']"> <xsl:value-of select="text"/> </xsl:for-each> </xsl:template>

It returns the ELEMENT 'Guitars:' but what I need is the text after it. I'm stumped if I can figure out how to get this value to return. The reason why I'm using the above XML is because there are lots of other <i> ELEMENTS within the document with the text 'Guitars:' and I need Fred's guitar choice specifically.

Here's the XML:

- <td>
<div align="right">Fred's List of Things:</div>
</td>

<td>
<i>Hobbys:<i>
Reading, Writing, painting, riding bikes
<br />
<i>Books I have read:</i>
Animal Farm,
<br />
<i>Guitars:</i>
1 Gibson Les Paul
<br />
<i>Cars:</i>
None, I like riding my bike everywhere
<br/>
</td>

Thanks for your time in this matter.

- S

 

[Patrick TJ McPhee]

% select="../following-sibling::*/child::htm:i[text='Guitars:']">

% It returns the ELEMENT 'Guitars:' but what I need is the text after it.

where the element in question is like this

% <i>Guitars:</i>
% 1 Gibson Les Paul
% <br />

you could try appending

/../following-sibling::/text[1]

to your expression. That should get everything up to the <br/>.

 

[Skaffen Amitkashaw]

Thanks, Patrick.

How good are you with the number function? I'm trying to return mixed numbers and string. For example: 45 km. Do I need to strip out the 'km' or does the number function take care of this for me?

Thanks again for your time

- S

 

[Marrow (2)]

Hi,

The following expression will remove any non-numeric characters from, for example, the context node...

translate(.,translate(.,'0123456789',''),'')

Hope this helps
Marrow
http://www.marrowsoft.com - home of Xselerator (XSLT IDE and debugger) http://www.topxml.com/Xselerator

 

[Skaffen Amitkashaw]

Hello Marrow,

Thanks ever so much!

-S