Andrew,

Just in case... can you just put the paragraph tags around your xsl:value-of statement?

e.g.

<p><xsl:value-of select="$post/data [@alias = 'bodyText']" disable-output-escaping="yes"/></p>

That would still be valid xml / xslt

Sorry Ignore my previous post - I misread - just understood what you were trying to do...

I haven't tested this out and I'm not sure how well the umbraco.library:StripHtml function will work with unclosed tags:

<xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:StripHtml(substring-before($post/data [@alias = 'bodyText'],'&lt;/p'))" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

i think the substring-before only gets part of the string before the actual p tag, and p tag not included? If so, use concat() xslt function to concat the first part (using substring-before) and the closing p tag.

Does that help

Cheers,

/Dirk

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for such a fast response. Dirk, you are right that the p end tag is not included and concat may be a good way to go but Neil's second response did the trick in the easiest way.

          <p>
            <xsl:value-of select="umbraco.library:RemoveFirstParagraphTag(substring-before($post/data [@alias = 'bodyText'],'&lt;/p'))" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
          </p>

Neil, the first answer didn't work out because it strips out any text formatting but the second option works like a charge. Just surrounded that with p tags like so

and it works perfectly.

Thanks!

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