Re: [xsl] Unwrapping trees

[Wendell Piez <wapiez at mulberrytech dot com>]

Norm --

How about:

<xsl:template match="a"><!-- just letting it default -->
  <xsl:apply-templates/>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="a//text()">
  <a href="{ancestor::a[1]/@href}">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </a>
</xsl:template>

...and just copying the span...?

Cheers,
Wendell


At 10:56 AM 6/13/2002, you wrote:
> Has anyone written the XSLT required to "unwrap" nested links?
>
> I'd like to turn, for example:
>
> <p>
>   text
>   <a href="1">
>     text
>     <span>
>       <a href="2">test</a>
>       text
>     </span>
>     text
>   </a>
>   text
> </p>
>
> into
>
> <p>
>   text
>   <a href="1">
>     text
>     <span/>
>   </a>
>   <span>
>     <a href="2">test</a>
>     text
>   </span>
>   <a href="1">
>     text
>   </a>
>   text
> </p>
>
> With extra bonus points for discarding the empty span (if it doesn't
> have an ID :-)
>
>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm
>
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