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medievalmatt
medievalmatt

Reputation: 491

Select text in node with Xsl:value-of but leave text of children out

I have the following piece of XML that I need to transform into an image tag:

    <surface xml:id="EETS.T.68">
        <label>Verse 68<note place="bottom" anchored="true" xml:id="informational">In
                Bodleian Laud 683, BL Harley 218, and BL Harley 2255 this verse is prefaced
                with the Latin "dic anime mee salus tua ego sum" [“Say to my soul, you are
                my salvation”], from Psalm 34:3. It is part of a five-stanza sequence
                treated in this manner in those texts, but only three of the verses appear
                at Long Melford.</note>
        </label>
        <graphic url="ww_test_5.jpg"/>
    </surface>

Using the following template:

<xsl:template match="tei:graphic" mode="list">
    <a class="nav_link">
            <img class="thumbnail">
                <xsl:attribute name="alt">
                    <xsl:value-of select="../tei:label"/>
                </xsl:attribute>
            </img>
        </a>
    </span>
</xsl:template>

I use the label elsewhere in my transform, so I can't really move elements around, but what I'd like to have happen is that it forms something like this:

<img class="thumbnail" src="../../Testament/Clopton/Thumbnails/ww_test_5-thumbnail.jpg" alt="Verse 68"/>

(note:I have deleted the thumbnail and src attributes above as it was confusing people)

Instead, the note contents are also included so I get this:

<img class="thumbnail"
                                src="../../Testament/Clopton/Thumbnails/ww_test_5-thumbnail.jpg"
                                alt="Verse 68In&#xA;                        Bodleian Laud 683, BL Harley 218, and BL Harley 2255 this verse is prefaced&#xA;                        with the Latin &#34;dic anime mee salus tua ego sum&#34; [“Say to my soul, you are&#xA;                        my salvation”], from Psalm 34:3. It is part of a five-stanza sequence&#xA;                        treated in this manner in those texts, but only three of the verses appear&#xA;                        at Long Melford."
                             />

I looked at some of the similar questions but they don't seem to really work for my use case. I've tried using text(not[*]), but that suppresses everything when there's a note element rather than just the note element itself. I'm also not sure xsl:copy-of is a viable option since I'm trying to get the content of a sibling node (and thus move up a level before selecting tei:label rather than selecting it directly.). When I've tried to use it it hasn't returned a result at all. Is there a way to get the result I'm looking for?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 317

Answers (2)

Martin Honnen
Martin Honnen

Reputation: 167491

If you want to select only the first text child node use <xsl:value-of select="../tei:label/text()[1]"/> or for the first child node <xsl:value-of select="../tei:label/node()[1]"/>.

Upvotes: 1

michael.hor257k
michael.hor257k

Reputation: 116982

This is very confusing. I think (!) you are trying to get only the text node that is a direct child of label? That could be done by changing:

            <xsl:attribute name="alt">
                <xsl:value-of select="../tei:label"/>
            </xsl:attribute>

to:

            <xsl:attribute name="alt">
                <xsl:value-of select="../tei:label/text()"/>
            </xsl:attribute>

Upvotes: 0

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