Since the output of the nxsl is essentially just a string that you can assign to a variable, you could use something like:

function stripTags(inString){
var re= /]*>/g;
return(inString.replace(re,”"));
}

to strip the tags out of the result. So you could use your modified version but call out to this function in the alert parameter to get just the string. Example at http://kinrowan.net/miscellany/flickrtest.xml.

Some of this stuff might be in the NXSL library, but they’ve obfuscated it so badly that I can’t even trace it (or won’t spend the time, at least). I’m thinking of slapping together a few functions like this one into a library to include into scripts.

You can try any rss feed, even yours, and try to retrieve the item/link element. I can get the element’s content, but can’t set a variable. It seems to me (though error messages seem not have little support in nxsl) that the problem with setting a variable with nxsl is that there’s no xml formatted text to parse in the user_id template, and since nxsl is essentially enhanced html, without the html wrapper there’s nothing to parse. But I’m probably wrong there, just inferrence.

It’s a bit of a moot point for me personally because I was essentially trying to figure out how to set an href attribute to the value of the item/link element. I ended up using the nxsl call to “values” to set that attribute, and it seems to work fine. That said, I’d love to figure out how to retrieve something like you’re doing and set a variable that I can later use standard javascript on (like getting a substring or something), but as I said I can’t even get your example to work without modification.

If you ant to look at my code, it’s at http://kinrowan.net/miscellany/flickrtest.xml. I basically added an alert to return the _IG_FetchContent return text to make sure I was getting valid xml and changed to my api key. I get the xml, but the user_id content doesn;t get set. I gather it works for you, though.

I can’t get your example to work properly with my flickr key and user name, nor in your example as written.

I’m trying to do something very similar to what you’re doing – essentially to set a variable to be the contents of a single node – in my case the <link> node of an RSS item, but the nxsl template for the select seems not to work. Have you had luck?