Re: Remove text Up to Full Stop

This is slightly off-topic, but does anyone know why there is no
string function in XSL that does what the "last-index-of" Java String
function does? (or is there one?) A recursive function seems rather
slow for this kind of (common) operation.

Hans

On 8/22/05, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I have also noticed the hex - I use oxygen and it seems to put in this
hex
> > in the strangest of places.
>
> I think it's a microsoft-encoded left quote, whgich is OK if you declare
> a microsoft encoding in your xml (and xsl) files, and your parser knows
> that encoding. But it's not a lot of point posting fragments of xml
> using that as if anyone tries to parse that using the default utf8
> encoding tehy just get told the file is not well formed as hex 85 isn't
> a legal utf8 encoding of anything.
>
> There are plenty of replace templates in the faq, something like
>
> <xsl:template name="x">
>  <xsl:param name="x" select="extract"/>
>   <xsl:if test="contains($x,'.')">
>   <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($x,'.')"/>
>   <xsl:text>.</xsl:text>
>   <xsl:call-template name="x">
>    <xsl:with-param name="x" select="substring-after($x,'.')"/>
>   </xsl:call-template>
>  </xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
>
> That discards everything after the the last . (and the whole thing if
> there isn't a ., so you just need to call that if there is a . in
> extract. (untested)
>
> David
>
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