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RE: Matchin elements in text nodes
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Matchin elements in text nodes
- From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:09:03 -0000
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
> <article>
> <article_id>123456</article_id>
> <main_heading>heading</main_heading>
> <article_date>article date</article_date>
> This is the article text part 1
> <sub_heading>sub heading</sub_heading>
> The article continues. This is part 2 of it
> </article>
> ...
>
> <xsl:template match="article">
> <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
Unless you have set <xsl:strip-space>, text() here will select the first
text node, which is the whitespace preceding the <article_id> tag.
Mike Kay
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