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Richard Howard
Richard Howard

Reputation: 1

Replace part of text

I have many files that contain coding similar to this:

<link linkaction="immediate" linktype="return" xlink:href="IETM://S50005#S50005-TOOL1" 
  xreftype="table">
  <prompt>Multimeter</prompt>
</link>

That needs to be replaced with this:

<xref itemid="S50005-TOOL1" wpid="S50005"/>

Need to change the tagging structure, but keep the reference info. Is this possible with Notepad++?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 50

Answers (1)

Yitzhak Khabinsky
Yitzhak Khabinsky

Reputation: 22157

Here is XSLT based solution. Notepad++ has XML Tools plugin for that.

To make input XML well-formed, I had to add a namespace to the root tag.

Input XML

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root xmlns:xlink="URI">
    <link linkaction="immediate" linktype="return"
          xlink:href="IETM://S50005#S50005-TOOL1" xreftype="table">
        <prompt>Multimeter</prompt>
    </link>
    <link linkaction="immediate" linktype="return"
          xlink:href="IETM://S50005#S50018-TOOL15" xreftype="table">
        <prompt>Multimeter</prompt>
    </link>
</root>

XSLT

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:xlink="URI">
    <xsl:output method="xml" encoding="utf-8" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
    <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>

    <xsl:template match="@*|node()">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>

    <xsl:template match="link">
        <xref itemid="{substring-after(@xlink:href, '#')}" wpid="{substring-before(substring-after(@xlink:href, '#'),'-')}"/>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Output

<root xmlns:xlink="URI">
  <xref itemid="S50005-TOOL1" wpid="S50005" />
  <xref itemid="S50018-TOOL15" wpid="S50018" />
</root>

Upvotes: 1

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