SLCH000
Reputation: 2233
Take substring of text of node using only xPath
Input node something like:
<span> 01.02.2019 - 31.12.2099 <span>
I want to get 01.02.2019 (with whitespaces left or not).
xPath 1.0 only
Upvotes: 0
Views: 62
Answers (1)
zx485
Reputation: 29052
After fixing the closing tag, try this expression
normalize-space(substring-before(span,'-'))
Upvotes: 1
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