Re: Replacing portion of element name

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Subject: Re: Replacing portion of element name
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:27:53 -0500

Eddie,

Can you articulate a logical rule whereby you know that the first underscore in the string "commander_s_ tracked_station_list" should be converted to an apostrophe, while the others should be converted to spaces? Your rule should be sufficiently general to work in all your cases.

Once you have articulated the logic you want to apply, it is reasonable to consider what code you need to implement it. Without understanding the logic, however, any code you write will work only by accident, if at all.

(And BTW, your example as provided isn't XML, so an XSLT processor isn't going to be able to process it at all, without help. I guess your actual element name doesn't have a space in it?)

Cheers,
Wendell

At 01:51 PM 11/24/2003, you wrote:

Hi all,

I have an element name <commander_s_ tracked_station_list>, among others,
that needs to be transformed to a string with an apostrophe followed by an
s, i.e. "commander's tracked...".  How can I get the 's without using
external functions?  Is this possible with XSLT/XPATH 1.0?  I can easily
convert the underscores to a non-breaking space using the translate
function, but I have not been able to crack the code to make the apostrophe
appear in the appropriate place.  Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated.

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Replacing portion of element name
- Boyd, Eddie - Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:51:25 -0500 (EST)
  - Jim Fuller - Mon, 24 Nov 2003 14:35:05 -0500 (EST)
    - Wendell Piez - Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:49:58 -0500 (EST)
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