Re: string manipulation

You need to use recursion.  Something like the following might do it for
your attributes (warning: untested!):


<xsl:template match="/item">
  <xsl:call-template name="print-att">
    <xsl:with-param name="string" select="@key"/>
  </xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>


<xsl:template name="print-att">
  <xsl:param name="string"/>
  <xsl:variable name="first" select="substring-before($string, ',')"/>
  <xsl:if test="$first">
    <xsl:value-of select="concat(' <-> ', $first"/>
    <xsl:call-template name="print-att">
      <xsl:with-param name="string" select="substring-after($string,
',')"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>



On Fri, 2002-10-25 at 10:52, john liao wrote:
> Hi Listmembers,
> 
> I'm finding myself having to manipulate strings
> because the tool that generates my xml can't generate
> new elements that I need:
> 
> <item name="var1" description="subscribed
> key=att1,att2 corc=att2,att3,att4,att21,att25"/>
> 
> I want to parse the description so I can print
> key: att1
> key: att2
> a: att2
> a: att3
> a: att4
> a: att21
> a: att25
> 
> I can't figure it out using substring-before or
> substring-after. Your help is very much appreciated.
> 
> J.L.
> 
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