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  • trfletch 598 posts 604 karma points
    Sep 27, 2010 @ 17:31
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    RSS feed with no images

    Hi All,

    I have an umbraco 4.5.2 site that is running the old XSLT schema. I want to create an RSS feed that shows the first 200 characters of a certain type of page but without any images. Is this possible using XSLT and if so how would go about doing it? I am using the RSS feed XSLT template and I know how to only show 200 characters so the main question is how can I show only text and no images, most of the pages start with an image or have one or two images within the first 200 characters (i.e. the images are within a rich text editor document property that I am pulling in). Thanks in advance for any help

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  • jc 64 posts 101 karma points
    Sep 27, 2010 @ 17:40
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    You can use the StripHtml method in the umbraco library:

    <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:StripHtml(data [@alias = 'MyRichTextArea'])"/>
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  • trfletch 598 posts 604 karma points
    Sep 27, 2010 @ 17:50
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    No sure why this got double posted! Thanks for the response, I am now using the following to get 350 characters, is there a nicer way of doing this or is it ok using two variables like I am? Also is it possible to finish at the end of a word or better still the end of a sentence as opposed to cutting it off half way through a word?

     <xsl:variable name="mainTextNoHtml" select="umbraco.library:StripHtml(data [@alias='nonmemberstext'])"/>
     <xsl:variable name="mainTextNoHtmlTruncate" select="umbraco.library:TruncateString($mainTextNoHtml,350,'')"/>
             <xsl:value-of select="concat('&lt;![CDATA[ ', $mainTextNoHtmlTruncate,']]&gt;')" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>...
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  • Sebastiaan Janssen 5060 posts 15522 karma points MVP admin hq
    Sep 27, 2010 @ 17:58
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    Looks good to me!

    I created an XSLT extension the other day that would just find the second dot in a string (which would be the end of the second sentence) and then returns that. You could easily do it like: find the first dot after 350 characters.

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  • trfletch 598 posts 604 karma points
    Sep 27, 2010 @ 18:14
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    Don't suppose you would be willing to share the code you used to do that? That sounds like the perfect solution.

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