Multiple paragraphs make story (keep &lt...

[Jim]

I have used the New York times as a starting point and so far everything works
great except my story text is made up of multiple paragraphs contained in

tag.

When I use let $text := data($doc//div/p) to capture the story it concatinates
all the content in the

tags into the variable and stores it. How can I
retain each section wrapped in its own

tag?

[Enissay]

well this is an xPath/xQuery question :)

I didnt get what you mean, but you can call the Nth section this way: let
$NthText := data($doc//div/p)

I don't know if this answers your question...

[Jim]

I would like to iterate through them by paragraph without knowing how many
paragraphs there may be.

[Selvin Fehric]

Well you can iterate through p elements until their content is empty. Or
something like that.

Example of solution:

Write while loop and then inside it use something like:

let $text := concat($text, data($doc//div/p_))

let $i := $i +1

or something like that, I am not sure for syntax. In condition of while loop
set if data($doc//div/p_) is not empty.

Play with it :)

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[Selvin Fehric]

Sorry, this editor recognized _ as italic tag.

So it was:

let $text := concat($text, data($doc//div/p))

let $index := $index +1

or something like that, I am not sure for syntax. In condition of while loop
set if data($doc//div/p) is not empty.

Play with it :)

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