<div><div><div>Exact timing and details of this meeting to be confirmed.<\/div> <div> <\/div> <div>This meeting will be held in Nanaimo<\/div><\/div> <\/div><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe value in the Row of my XSL result looked basically like this (with all the other node attributes stripped out for brevity\u2019s sake).<\/p>\n
[sourcecode language=”XML”]
\n<Row ImportantInformation="<div class="ExternalClass731DB49F9ACC43AAA73AB0C68C117F2F"><div><div>Exact timing and
\ndetails of this meeting to be confirmed.<\/div>
<div> <\/div>
<div>This meeting will be held in
\nNanaimo<\/div><\/div>
<\/div>" \/>
\n[\/sourcecode]<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not going to go into the details of how to get the XSL setup (basically, I changed \/Style Library\/XSL Style Sheets\/ItemStyle.xsl file in SharePoint Designer 2010), but to convert this value from the unwanted HTML output to the (desirable) text output, you can simply run it through the following transform.<\/p>\n
I added this stylesheet template to the end of the file (before the close <\/xsl:stylesheet><\/span>).<\/p>\n[sourcecode language=”XML”]
\n<xsl:template name="strip-tags">
\n <xsl:param name="text"\/>
\n <xsl:choose>
\n <xsl:when test="contains($text, \u2018<\u2019)">
\n <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text, \u2018<\u2019)"\/>
\n <xsl:call-template name="strip-tags">
\n <xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text, \u2018>\u2019)"\/>
\n <\/xsl:call-template>
\n <\/xsl:when>
\n <xsl:otherwise>
\n <xsl:value-of select="$text"\/>
\n <\/xsl:otherwise>
\n <\/xsl:choose>
\n<\/xsl:template>
\n[\/sourcecode]<\/p>\n
To call this, I added a call to the XSL style sheet by changing my code<\/p>\n
FROM:<\/p>\n
[sourcecode language=”XML”]
\n<div class="description">
\nImportant Information:<xsl:value-of select="@ImportantInformation" \/>
\n<\/div>
\n[\/sourcecode]<\/p>\n
TO:<\/p>\n
[sourcecode language=”XML”]
\n<div class="description">
\nImportant Information:
\n<xsl:call-template name="strip-tags">
\n <xsl:with-param name="text" select="@ImportantInformation"\/>
\n<\/xsl:call-template>
\n<\/div>
\n[\/sourcecode]<\/p>\n
Hopefully this can help other people strip the HTML from a multi-line text value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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