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June 15th, 2011, 08:32 AM

san1646

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Text Between Elements

Hi all,

This is my first post here...so please forgive my delinquencies.

My problem is like this:

<parent>
The member is ordered to or retained on active duty, active service, or active state service under 10
<child1/>
<child2Start/>
USC
<child2End/>
688, 12301(a), 12301(g), 12302, 12304, or 12305, or under 14
<child1/>
<child2Start/>
USC
<child2End/>
331, 332, 359, 360, 367, or 712.
</parent>

This is the input XML. Now i have to get the text between 'child2Start' and 'child2End' and put it into a new element in the target.
Since, these two are different elements, which are closing there itself, the effect is that the text between them belongs to the element 'parent'.

Please suggest any solutions for this...as i have to do it in XSL. I tried using

<xsl:for-each select="parent::node()">
<xsl:value-of select="text()[1]"/>

but could not get the exact text 'between' two elements i.e. 'child2Start' and 'child2End' .

Thank you,
Sanket

June 19th, 2011, 05:15 AM

xml-profi

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Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<parent>The member is ordered to or retained on active duty, active service, or active state service under 10
	<child1/>
	<child2Start/>USC
	<child2End/>688, 12301(a), 12301(g), 12302, 12304, or 12305, or under 14
	<child1/>
	<child2Start/>USC
	<child2End/>331, 332, 359, 360, 367, or 712.</parent>

not use for-each think in template

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
	<xsl:output indent="yes" method="xml"/>
	<xsl:template match="/">
		<root>
			<xsl:apply-templates select="parent"/>
		</root>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="parent">
		<!--
		<xsl:for-each select="node()">
			<xsl:if test="text()">
				<item>
					<xsl:value-of select="concat(local-name(.),'  ',.)"/>
				</item>
			</xsl:if>
		</xsl:for-each>
		-->
		<xsl:apply-templates select="text()" mode="text"/>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="text()" mode="text">
		<!--
		<nodebefore>
			<xsl:value-of select="local-name(preceding-sibling::node()[1])"/>
		</nodebefore>
		-->
		<xsl:if test="local-name(preceding-sibling::node()[1])='child2Start' and local-name(following-sibling::node()[1])='child2End'">
			<text>
				<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
			</text>
		</xsl:if>
		<!--
		<nodeafter>
			<xsl:value-of select="local-name(following-sibling::node()[1])"/>
		</nodeafter>
		-->
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

result

Code:

<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<root>
  <text>USC</text>
  <text>USC</text>
</root>

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June 19th, 2011, 07:59 AM

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thanks...it worked wonders!!

July 29th, 2011, 04:10 AM

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Thanks for the solution!!!
Now, i have little extra things to be captured

<parent>
The member is ordered to or retained on active duty, active service, or active state service under 10
<child1/>
<child2Start/>
USC
<child3>
<child4>234</child4>
<child5>234</child5>
</child3>

<child6Start/>
njdsnjvndj
<child6End/>

<child2End/>
688, 12301(a), 12301(g), 12302, 12304, or 12305, or under 14
<child1/>
<child2Start/>
USC
<child2End/>
331, 332, 359, 360, 367, or 712.
</parent>

i wanna capture the elements b/w <child2Start/> <child2End/>
i.e
1.<child3>
<child4>234</child4>
<child5>234</child5>
</child3>
2.<child6Start/>
njdsnjvndj
<child6End/>

Previous solution :

inside the template <xsl:template match="text()" mode="text">,
<xsl:apply-templates select="child::*"/> will not work
as it will have only the text of current node.

Please help me in this.

August 2nd, 2011, 12:34 AM

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a gentle reminder...
please help!!!

Text Between Elements

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