RE: Value of the variable

t:\ftemp>type siddhi.xml
<book>xxx, xxxxxx, xxxxxxxxxxx, <i>xxx</i></book>

<xsl:template match="book">
  <xsl:copy>
    <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
    <xsl:apply-templates mode="make-tokens"/>
  </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<!--tokenize and wrap any text node children-->
<xsl:template match="text()" mode="make-tokens">
  <xsl:for-each select="tokenize(.,', ')[normalize-space()]">
    <key><xsl:value-of select="."/></key>
    <xsl:if test="position()!=last()">, </xsl:if>
  </xsl:for-each>
  <xsl:if test="position()!=last()">, </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

<!--simply wrap any element children-->
<xsl:template match="*" mode="make-tokens">
  <key>
    <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
    <xsl:if test="position()!=last()">, </xsl:if>
  </key>
</xsl:template>

At 2009-11-26 14:27 +0530, Joga Singh Rawat wrote:

What _exactly_ do you want returned from "a, b, <i>c</i>, <b>d</i>"?  If
people do not tell us what they want, it is difficult (and a waste of
volunteer time) to keep guessing what people are asking for.

==>Sorry ken, I can understand that. What I thought that if I get the value
in the variable then I can do it easily. I was trying to do below

<xsl:template match="p">
 <xsl:variable name="txt-with-node" select="."/>
 <a-g>
   <xsl:for-each select="tokenize($txt-with-node,', ')">
    <a><xsl:value-of select="."/></a>
  </a-z>
 </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

Sorry, Joga, you are showing us what you are doing, you are still not showing us _exactly_ what you want. And, the original data and the example above are *not* well-formed XML, so I'm only guessing.

Assuming the input is repaired to be as follows:

"a, b, <i>c</i>, <b>d</b>"

Do you want the result to be:

  <a-g>
    <a>a</a>
    <a>b</a>
    <a>c</a>
    <a>d</a>
  </a-g>

Do you want the result to be:

  <a-g>
    <a>a</a>
    <a>b</a>
    <a><i>c</i></a>
    <a><b>d</b></a>
  </a-g>

Do you want the result to be something else?

The answer we volunteers can give you will depend on _exactly_ what you want. We are still being asked to guess.

. . . . . . . . . . . Ken

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