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Hi All.
I'm trying to transform a html document into plain text via xslt.
Simple you say! (i hope)
I have got it working, by using the magnificent <xsl:value-of select="."/>.
This returns the whole document, and <xsl:output method="text"/> ensures that the output I get is plain text.
problem:
The html I am transforming has a table, with headings and data. Whilst the output contains all the data form the table, it does not preserve any formatting, and concatenates all the data within the table.
Can you suggest how i could extract the data from the table, and present in plain text? The only formatting I require, is that the spacing between the columns is somewhat preserved.
I am, as im sure you can tell, an xslt noob still, even with many years of application development under my belt!.
Thanks for all your help!
Xslt:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Html:
<HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<HEAD></HEAD>
<BODY>
<p>Dear person,</p>
<p>The following are columns are required to preserve the formatting.</p>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="50%">
<tr>
<td width="20%">Column 1</td>
<td width="25%">Column 2</td>
<td width="20%">Column 3</td>
<td width="20%">Column 4</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><font size="4">01/06/2008</font></td>
<td><font size="4">34.2</font></td>
<td><font size="4">A Name</font></td>
<td><font size="4">42.00</font></td>
</tr>
</table>
</BODY>
</HTML>
result:
somethign like...
Dear person, The following are columns are required to preserve the formatting. Column 1Column 2Column 3Column 401/06/200834.2A Name42.00
;
Any suggestions would be welcome:)
