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Peter
Peter

Reputation: 1796

Match text node in element with sub elements

I am having the same problem as described in How to get text from the node in xml file, that contains text and child node? but I need XSLT to match the text.

I have the following simplified XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<order>2013-09-02T00:00:00COPY
<contentVersion>
    <versionIdentification>2.1.1</versionIdentification>
</contentVersion>
</order>

I have tried the following XPATHs:

<xsl:variable name="vtextPostM" select="text()[self::order]"/>
<xsl:variable name="vtextPostM" select="self::text()[1]"/>
<xsl:variable name="vtextPostM" select="text()[self::*]"/>

I am expecting:

2013-09-02T00:00:00COPY

Upvotes: 0

Views: 231

Answers (2)

Joel M. Lamsen
Joel M. Lamsen

Reputation: 7173

Whoops, just edited my answer:

<xsl:variable name="vtextPostM" select="order/child::node()[position()=1][self::text()]"/>

Upvotes: 2

michael.hor257k
michael.hor257k

Reputation: 116993

Where exactly are you when you define the variable? Without any context, the absolute path:

/order/text()[1]

or just (using your specific example):

/order/text()

should produce the result you want. You will want to wrap this in a normalize-space(), because it includes the trailing line feed before <contentVersion>.

Upvotes: 1

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