Re: Refactoring parsing code with XSLT 2.0

On 5/13/05, Micah Dubinko <micah@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> I've used tokenize, and I like it. But it seems to only work where you
> can throw away the delimiters.
>
> Ex.  "a b c" --> "a", "b", "c" (with the spaces gone)
>
> In this case, what I need is
>
> "3.04in" --> "3.04", "in"
>
> So I'd need a regex that hits in the right spot, but matches zero
> characters. I don't think lookaheads are in the spec. At least I haven't
> found them. Neither are subexpressions that I can tell.
>
> I still have a feeling that XSLT2 offers some elegant way to do this, at
> least more elegant than my current 11-line <xsl:choose> construction. Am
> I off-key?
>
> .micah


Using FXSL one would write (both in XSLT 1.0 and XSLT 2.0) something like
this:

<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
 xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
 xmlns:f="http://fxsl.sf.net/"
 xmlns:myController="f:myController"
 xmlns:x="f:myTest"
 exclude-result-prefixes="f myController x"
 >
  <xsl:import href="../f/strSpan.xsl"/>
  <!-- To be applied on csstext.xml -->
  <xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>

  <myController:myController/>

  <xsl:variable name="x:st" select="document('')/*"/>

  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:call-template name="strSpan">
      <xsl:with-param name="pStr" select="string(/*)"/>
      <xsl:with-param name="pController"
                      select="$x:st/myController:*[1]"/>
      <xsl:with-param name="pContollerParam"
                      select="'0123456789.'"/>
      <xsl:with-param name="pElementName1" select="'value'"/>
      <xsl:with-param name="pElementName2" select="'unit'"/>
    </xsl:call-template>
  </xsl:template>

  <xsl:template match="myController:*" mode="f:FXSL">
    <xsl:param name="pChar"/>
    <xsl:param name="pParams"/>

    <xsl:if test="contains($pParams, $pChar)">1</xsl:if>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

When this transformation is applied on the following source xml document:

<csstext>5.5in</csstext>

the result is:

<value>5.5</value>
<unit>in</unit>

I haven't re-writen the "strSpan" template as an xsl:function simply
because I need to decide on a clear convention how to represents the
results of a function, which returns more than one sequence.

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev