Re: remove and clean CDATA out of xml

bw wrote:
> I am looking for a way to remove the CDATA and only get the text.
> CURRENT:
> <add>
> <doc>
> <some_title>My title</some_title>
> <content><![[CDATA[
> <p>The <strong>keyword</strong> is nice to have but is not needed to
> include in a solr feed</p><p><table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="2"
> border="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td>&#201;tape 1&nbsp;:</td></tr>
> ]]></content>
> </doc>
> <doc>
> ....
> </doc>
> </add>
>
> WANTED:
> <add>
> <doc>
> <some_title>My title</some_title>
> <content>The keyword is nice to have but is not needed to
> include in a solr feed

what happens to the rest of the content here?

> </content>
> </doc>
> <doc>
> ....
> </doc>
> </add>
>
> any vim tricks to do this?

You might be able to do something like

:%s/<!\[\[CDATA\[\(\%(\%(]]>\)\@!\_.\)\{-}\)]]>/\=substitute(submatch(1),
'<[^>]*>', '', 'g')/g

(all on one line)
It doesn't post-process XML entities, but otherwise, it worked on
your example...

-tim

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