Re: Re: How to match a element + part of an immediate

"Wendell Piez" <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6.0.0.22.0.20040114111525.02b728e0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> At 04:59 AM 1/14/2004, Mike wrote:
> >...
> >Secondly, there is nothing in XSLT 1.0 that allows you to split a string
> >into its component words. You can do it yourself using a recursive
> >template (there are examples in my book XSLT Programmers Reference), or
> >you can use a vendor- or third-party extension function xx:tokenize().
>
> This may seem obvious and gratuitous (for which I apologize), but I hasten
> to add that this is only a *particular* notion of what a "word" is (a
> substring delimited by white space), which may not be robust enough for
all
> purposes. For example, if your input reads
>
> <p> the quick <em>brown</em> fox, ears up, jumps </p>
>
> you may want your output to read not
>
> <p> the <em>quick brown fox,</em> ears up, jumps </p>
>
> but
>
> <p> the <em>quick brown fox</em>, ears up, jumps </p>
>
> which will require a more sophisticated definition of the concept of a
> "word", and which will not be so tractable using basic substringing around
> whitespace (or a simple tokenize function either, FTM).
>
> This kind of thing is not impossible to work around in most real-world
> cases, but since XSLT 1.0 is not designed for up-conversion, it can get
> pretty hairy.


For such cases the usefulness of the "str-split-to-words" template from FXSL
has been well established.

 FXSL deals successfully with the "heariness" of most such problems.


Dimitre Novatchev.
FXSL developer

http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
Resume: http://fxsl.sf.net/DNovatchev/Resume/Res.html




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