Remove image from displaying from the RSS feed

[surina777]

Hi,
I am using XSL to display my RSS feed, I am also only displaying X amt of characters from the description on the screen. The problem I am running into is when there is an image, it displays it or nothing at all of the description. How do get it to skip the image and not count that in the character count?

[surina777]

is it possible to remove the image part of the string before displaying the description?

[wwb_99]

Sure. Probably would help to see the XSL and perhaps the RSS feed in question.

[surina777]

XSL

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- DWXMLSource="http://info.hdsupplyelectrical.com/CMS/UI/Modules/BizBlogger/rss.aspx?tabid=213776&moduleid=321994&maxcount=25&t=fa17b3cd-d674-487d-8a0c-78d81470e448" -->
<!DOCTYPE xsl:stylesheet  [
	<!ENTITY nbsp   " ">
	<!ENTITY copy   "©">
	<!ENTITY reg    "®">
	<!ENTITY trade  "™">
	<!ENTITY mdash  "—">
	<!ENTITY ldquo  "“">
	<!ENTITY rdquo  "”"> 
	<!ENTITY pound  "£">
	<!ENTITY yen    "¥">
	<!ENTITY euro   "€">
]>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
<xsl:output method="html" encoding="UTF-8"/>
 <xsl:template name="getDate">
      <xsl:param name="dateTime" />
      <xsl:value-of select="substring($dateTime,0,4)" />
      <xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
      <xsl:value-of select="substring($dateTime,6,3)" />
      <xsl:value-of select="substring($dateTime,9,3)" />
      <xsl:value-of select="substring($dateTime,12,5)" />
 
  </xsl:template>
 
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="rss/channel/item">
	<xsl:if test="position()&lt;=2"><div class="blog-post">
  <!--Display Date -->
  <span class="date">
  <xsl:call-template name="getDate">
      <xsl:with-param name="dateTime" select="pubDate" />
  </xsl:call-template>
  </span>
  <br /><a href="{link}" target="_blank"><b><xsl:value-of select="title"/></b></a>
 
  <div class="blog-post">
  <xsl:value-of select="substring(description,1,100)" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
  <span class="right"><!--<a href="{link}" target="_blank">-->...</span></div>
  <div class="clear"></div>
  </div></xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Feed: http://info.hdsupplyelectrical.com/

if you notice the most recent post has an image first, so that is being counted towards the 100 character limit...