RE: Tokenizing and special characters

"+" is a special character in a regex, so it needs to be written as "\+" if
you want to match literal "+" characters.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: michella@xxxxxxx [mailto:michella@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 13 December 2004 14:34
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Tokenizing and special characters
> 
> Hello,
> 
> My XML Data contains in several text fields the following sequence
> "+++", which should indicate me I have to insert a newline.
> 
> To achieve this, I use the following tokenize function :
> 
> <xsl:for-each
> select="tokenize(SAProperty[@SAPrpName='Description']/@SAPrpVa
> lue,'+++')
> [string(.)]">
> 		<fo:block>
> 				<xsl:value-of select="."/>
> 		</fo:block>
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> Here is the error message I get :
> 
>   net.sf.saxon.type.RegexTranslator$RegexSyntaxException: Error at
> character 0 in regular expression: expected end of string
> Failed to compile stylesheet. 1 error detected.
> 
> (The error points to this part of code)
> 
> Any help would be greatful :-)
> 
> Regards
> 
> Lawrence Michel