At 2009-06-30 13:30 -0400, Sharon_Harris@u... wrote:
>I am trying to wrap specific text in a string within HTML tags. For
>example, if a strings contains the word "Note:", then I want to enclose
>this word within a set of bold tags (<b>Note:</b>). I do not have control
>over the XML data source and cannot modify the structure/schema.
>
>I have tried using the replace function to search for the specific text and
>then replace it with a defined variable.

The replace() function only works with strings, not with nodes.

>The variable contains the text
>wrapped within the HTML tags. Unfortunately, only the content within the
>variable is getting pulled and the HTML tags are being ignored.

Correct ... because the arguments to replace() are cast to strings.

>Can anyone
>tell me how to get the tags added as well during the search and replace?

By analyzing the string rather than using replace.

>XML excerpt:
>    <Row>
>    <ReleaseNote>Before: The application did this. Now: The application does
>    this. Note: The application may also do this.</ReleaseNote>
>    </Row>
>    <Row>
>    <ReleaseNote>Before: The application did not do this. Now: The
>    application does this.</ReleaseNote>
>    </Row>
>
>XSLT excerpt:
>    <xsl:variable name="NoteBold"><b>Note:</b></xsl:variable>
>    <xsl:variable name="BeforeBold"><b>Before:</b></xsl:variable>
>    <xsl:variable name="NowBold"><b>Now:</b></xsl:variable>
>
>    <xsl:template match="text()">
>       <xsl:value-of select="replace(replace(replace(.,'Note:',$NoteBold),
>    'Before:',$BeforeBold), 'Now:', $NowBold)"/>
>    </xsl:template>

This is an incorrect approach because you are matching *all* text 
nodes in the *entire* document and doing the replace on *every* piece 
of text you have.

I hope the example below helps ... you have a very straightforward 
requirement because you are only wrapping text with a bold element 
node, not massaging the text.

. . . . . . . . . . . Ken

T:\ftemp>type sharon.xml
<test>
    <Row>
    <ReleaseNote>Before: The application did this. Now: The application does
    this. Note: The application may also do this.</ReleaseNote>
    </Row>
    <Row>
    <ReleaseNote>Before: The application did not do this. Now: The
    application does this.</ReleaseNote>
    </Row>
</test>

T:\ftemp>call xslt2 sharon.xml sharon.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><test>
    <Row>
    <ReleaseNote><b>Before:</b> The application did this. <b>Now:</b> 
The applica
tion does
    this. <b>Note:</b> The application may also do this.</ReleaseNote>
    </Row>
    <Row>
    <ReleaseNote><b>Before:</b> The application did not do this. 
<b>Now:</b> The
    application does this.</ReleaseNote>
    </Row>
</test>
T:\ftemp>type sharon.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
                 version="2.0">

<xsl:template match="ReleaseNote">
   <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:analyze-string select="." regex="Before:|Note:|Now:">
       <xsl:matching-substring>
         <b><xsl:value-of select="."/></b>
       </xsl:matching-substring>
       <xsl:non-matching-substring>
         <xsl:value-of select="."/>
       </xsl:non-matching-substring>
     </xsl:analyze-string>
   </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="@*|node()"><!--identity for all other nodes-->
   <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
   </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

T:\ftemp>


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