Re: select first word

Abel Braaksma wrote:

<xsl:value-of select="
translate(
substring-before(
substring-before(.,' '), ', '),
$from, $to)" />

  If I am right (if I remember correctly) the input doesn't always have
space or comma.  So I would use the following instead (or the result
could be empty):

translate(replace(., '([^, ]+).*', '$1'), $from, $to)

<!-- include comma, which is not matched, thus it will be deleted -->
<xsl:variable name="from" select="'abcdehijklmnorstuvyz{|HIJKA@,'" />
<xsl:variable name="to" select="'aaaaaeeeeiiiioooooEEEEAA'" />

<!-- without space -->
<xsl:template match="le">
   <xsl:value-of select="translate(., $from, $to)" />
</xsl:template>

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma