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Re: Remove a number at the beginning of some text
Subject: Re: Remove a number at the beginning of some text
From: "Graeme Kidd" <coolkidd3@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 21:39:03 -0000
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Hi Wendell,
This is easier in XSLT 2.0, which supports regular expressions.
Yes I can use XSLT 2.0 as I am using AltovaXML.exe
But solutions are possible even in 1.0.
A question: will the number ever be inside markup, as in <p><i>1.4</i>
Heading</p> or <p><i>1.4 Heading</i></p>? If so, it's trickier.
No just <p>1.4 Heading</p>
More questions: does whitespace need to be preserved? will whitespace
after the number ever be more than (other than) a single space? Will there
ever be whitespace before the number?
I searched 8 files and none of them had a space before the number i.e. <p>
1.2 Heading</p> but they all had at least one space after the number except
for a few anomalies that had more than one.
Another question: is it fair to define a "number" for these purposes a
string of characters that includes only the Arabic numerals 0-9 and
periods? What about "1.0.1": is that a number? What about "1,000,000"?
"MMIX"?
Yes any number from 0-9 with periods e.g. 3.2.1 or 10.1.1
Does that give you a clearer picture of the problem?
Thanks so far,
Graeme
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From: "Wendell Piez" <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:48 PM
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Remove a number at the beginning of some text
Graeme,
At 10:18 AM 1/7/2009, you wrote:
I wanting to remove a number in some text e.g.
< root>
< p>1.3 Heading < / p>
< root>
Should be:
< root>
< p>Heading < / p>
< root>
This is easier in XSLT 2.0, which supports regular expressions.
But solutions are possible even in 1.0.
A question: will the number ever be inside markup, as in <p><i>1.4</i>
Heading</p> or <p><i>1.4 Heading</i></p>? If so, it's trickier.
More questions: does whitespace need to be preserved? will whitespace
after the number ever be more than (other than) a single space? Will there
ever be whitespace before the number?
Another question: is it fair to define a "number" for these purposes a
string of characters that includes only the Arabic numerals 0-9 and
periods? What about "1.0.1": is that a number? What about "1,000,000"?
"MMIX"?
In any case, the problem is solvable but this is the sort of thing one
needs to know (especially whether you can use XSLT 2.0).
Cheers,
Wendell
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