Michael Orlitzky wrote
I would like to replace,
<body><a href="#">foo</a></body>
with,
<body>foo</body>
using HXT. So far, the closest I've come is to parse the HTML and apply the following stuff:
is_link :: (ArrowXml a) => a XmlTree XmlTree is_link = hasName "a"
replace_links_with_their_text :: (ArrowXml a) => a XmlTree XmlTree replace_links_with_their_text = processTopDown $ (getText >>> mkText) `when` is_link
processTopDown $ (deep getText >>> mkText) `when` is_link should do it. The "deep getText" will find all Text nodes, independent of the nesting of elements in the <a>...</a> element. If you then write the result into a document every thing is fine. One small problem can occur when the content of the <a> Element has e.g. the form <body><a href="#">foo<b>bar</b></a></body> The resulting DOM then still contains two text nodes, one for "foo" and one for "bar". If you later search for a text "foobar" you don't find a node. The melting of adjacent text nodes can be done with ... (xshow (deep getText) >>> mkText) ... Cheers, Uwe -- Uwe Schmidt FH Wedel Web: http://www.fh-wedel.de/~si/