RE: Generic Element to Attribute String Conversion

     Hi,
         An example of a recursive string chopping template is available
here.

	http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200102/msg00893.html

	Good luck.
	Omprakash.V


-----Original Message-----
From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 1:14 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Generic Element to Attribute String Conversion


John,

At 02:40 PM 2/4/2005, you wrote:
>>Your question has a simple answer, but it also contains a possible
>>"gotcha" that is potentially very important.
>
>I think I know what you're talking about and I think this software
>includes an extension function I can use to access nodes by path even if
>it isn't allowed by XSL.

Yes, Saxon has a saxon:evaluate() extension for this (given an arbitrary
string, evaluate as XPath), and other processors may have their own
versions.

>>and then spliced together, this is most easily achieved by a recursive
>>string-chopping template (or possibly by string-replacement functionality
>>in XSLT 2.0).
>
>I can't use XSL 2 yet.  I will search for recursive string-chopping; my
>last search didn't find that.

Try recursive templates, string replacement: "string-chopping" is just the
way I described it (though you might get lucky).

The FAQ has a section on "General String Replace": see
http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/StringReplace.html.

Cheers,
Wendell


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