Change the width (not length) of snippet (remove br's?)

[Mike Baratta]

Hi,

We would like bigger snippets that stretch to the width of the page. I've increased the snippet size but it only makes it taller.

 I've been trying to make the snippets wider by modifying the CSS to no avail. I've noticed that the GSA is adding <br> tags where (I guess) it feels the snippet should wrap.

I was unsuccessful in finding the portion of the XSLT where this is done, so I can remove the breaks.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance,
Mike

[Mathias Bierl]

This is done by the GSA itself and not by the XSLT.

If you look at the XML results you will see these <br> tags in the Snippet-Node of the result.

[Mike Baratta]

Arrghh. That's annoying. Not sure I see the point in that.

Thanks for the quick response.

Mike

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[Edwin Stauthamer]

Here's something to help you with that:

The GSA sometimes throws in BR tags into the snippet itself (in the XML), so that it ends up leaving a lot of white space on the page and doesn't look that good.  Here is a small XSLT template along with the code that you need to change in the XSLT to call it, to remove BR tags from snippets and to replace it with a single space.

Add the following template to your XSLT:

<xsl:template name="string-replace-all">
  <xsl:param name="text" />
  <xsl:param name="replace" />
  <xsl:param name="by" />
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="contains($text, $replace)">
      <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($text,$replace)" />
      <xsl:value-of select="$by" />
      <xsl:call-template name="string-replace-all">
        <xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text,$replace)" />
        <xsl:with-param name="replace" select="$replace" />
        <xsl:with-param name="by" select="$by" />
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      <xsl:value-of select="$text" />
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Change the following lines in the XSLT where it is printing out the snippet:

          <xsl:call-template name="reformat_keyword">
            <xsl:with-param name="orig_string" select="S"/>
          </xsl:call-template>

to:

        <xsl:variable name="snippetNoBr">
          <xsl:call-template name="string-replace-all">
            <xsl:with-param name="text" select="S" />
            <xsl:with-param name="replace" select="'&lt;br&gt;'" />
            <xsl:with-param name="by" select="' '" />
          </xsl:call-template>
        </xsl:variable>

          <xsl:call-template name="reformat_keyword">
            <xsl:with-param name="orig_string" select="$snippetNoBr"/>
          </xsl:call-template>

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[Mike Baratta]

Thank you Edwin. That worked perfectly, and saved me the time and frustration to write something similar on my own.

Thanks again,
Mike

[Miguel Rolo]

Thanks, work perfectly