> I am looking for a string tokenizer, similar to the
> one available in the java library.
>
> I have a source node with delimited key/value pairs
>
> <text>A:a;B:b;C:c;D:d</text>
>
You can do this in XSLT using recursive templates and the substring-before()
and substring-after() functions, but it's easier to use an extension
function such as saxon:tokenize().

>
> I've heard that the next version of XPath will include
> string tokenizers.

Better string handling is certainly on the published requirements list.

Mike Kay
Software AG


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