RE: replace function

I'm a newbie to XLST and looking for good reference books.

Would you consider "Mastering XSLT, by Chuck White" as a better book than say, "XSLT 2nd Edition - Wrox Press, by Michael Kay"???

Simon


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Pallister [mailto:jpallister@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 October 2002 15:39
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE:  replace function
> 
> 
> That happens to be the same as the example I had referred you 
> to earlier.
> 
> >You can use a replace template. Chuck White has an example 
> on page 594 of
> his book Mastering XSLT
> 
> Sorry if you thought I was being derogatory, I am a newbie 
> too. Next time I
> won't be so lazy and will type out the solution... 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stevenson Ngila [mailto:Stevenson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:00 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  replace function
> 
> 
> Thanks Michael Kay, i wrote one and it worked perfectly. See it below:
> 
> <xsl:template name="stringSpacing">
>   <xsl:param name="sString"/>
>   <xsl:choose>
>     <xsl:when test="contains($sString, ',')">
> 	<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($sString, ',')"/>,&#32;
> 
> 	<xsl:call-template name="stringSpacing">
> 	        <xsl:with-param name="sString"
> select="substring-after($sString,
> ',')" />
> 	 </xsl:call-template>
>     </xsl:when>
>     <xsl:otherwise>
>         <xsl:value-of select="$sString"/>
>   </xsl:otherwise>
>   </xsl:choose>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael Kay
> Sent: 30 September 2002 23:06
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE:  replace function
> 
> 
> e is get a string i.e.
> > "steve,john,peter" and replace the next word to a comma  with
> > a space hence the new string become "steve, john, peter" how
> > can i achieve this using the translate function?
> 
> Although people have written solutions to this that you can use
> off-the-shelf, it's worth learning how to write the code yourself. You
> need a recursive template, it should use substring-before() to output
> the string before the first comma, then output ", ", then use
> substring-after() and call itself to process the rest of the string
> after the first comma.
> 
> Any good XSLT textbook will have examples of this.
> 
> Michael Kay
> Software AG
> home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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