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Asked: 2026-06-13T04:54:31+00:00

I’m trying to exclude certain set of html tags from the xml string using

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I’m trying to exclude certain set of html tags from the xml string using XSLT 1.0

Here, currently I’m excluding <a> and <img> tag. For <a> tag, I want to display only text.

Tried XSLT template:

<xsl:template match="*" mode="ExcludeHTMLTags">
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="local-name() = 'a' or local-name() = 'img'">
      <xsl:value-of select="text()"/>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
  <xsl:apply-templates select="node()|@*"/>
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Calling above template in the below fashion:

<xsl:variable name="guideContent">
  <root>
    <xsl:apply-templates 
 select="document(@guideID)/tcm:Component/tcm:Data/tcm:Content/em:GeneralContent/em:Body/node()" 
 mode="expandXHTML"/>
  </root>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:apply-templates select="msxsl:node-set($guideContent)/node()" mode="ExcludeHTMLTags"/>

Input XML string:

<root>
This is a test message.
<p>Message within p tag</p> click <a href="www.test.com">here</a>.
<img src="/test.jpg" /> Message after image.
<strong>Message within strong</strong>
<link:component id="XXX" ... >My Link</link:component>
<p>Message after link component</p>
</root>

OUTPUT:

<root>
This is a test message.
<p>Message within p tag</p> click here.
Message after image.
<strong>Message within strong</strong>
<link:component id="XXX" ... >My Link</link:component>
<p>Message after link component</p>
</root>

Please suggest what I’m doing wrong and tell the best way.

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  1. Editorial Team

    This transformation:

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

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

 <xsl:template match="a"><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:template>
 <xsl:template match="img"/>
</xsl:stylesheet>

    when applied on this XML document (none provided by the OP !!!):

    <html>
 <body>
  <a>Anchor text</a>
  <img source="http://someUrl"/>
 </body>
</html>

    produces the wanted, correct result:

    <html>
   <body>Anchor text</body>
</html>
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