RE: Pattern Matching a sting value

> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> scott gabelhart
> Sent: 06 February 2004 01:14
> To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Pattern Matching a sting value

> How in XSLT 1.0 do you interogate a specific portion of a string?


> $stg = "font:...;font-family:Arial;color:#FFFFF;...."
> 
> I am only interested in the portion of this string that 
> contains Arial.

Not sure what interested means, if you want to test for the existance
use the boolean contains() function;

	contains($stg,'Arial') would return true

Otherwise use the following string based functions

	string substring-before(string, string)
	string substring-after(string, string)
	string substring(string, number, number?)
	string concat(string, string, string*)
	number string-length(string?)

You might need these as well;

	string normalize-space(string?)
	string translate(string, string, string)

Check out here for specific techniques;

http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N7240.html

Otherwise if you want something with regular expressions or more
advanced string handling like replacing text check out www.exslt.org.


Gl, Jim Fuller


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