Subject: Re: String cleaning in XSLT and XQuery
From: Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 12:14:30 +0100
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James Cummings wrote:
<xsl:function name="jc:cleanString" as="xs:string">
<xsl:param name="string"/>
<xsl:variable name="cleanedString">
<xsl:analyze-string select="lower-case(normalize-space($string))"
regex="[a-zA-Z0-9\s]+">
<xsl:matching-substring><xsl:value-of select="translate(., '
', '_')"/></xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:non-matching-substring/>
</xsl:analyze-string>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:value-of select="$cleanedString"/>
</xsl:function>
a) Am I doing this in a good way? Anything I've overlooked? (Always
happy to get tips on making things that already work better!)
Doesn't using the replace function suffice for your requirement?
translate(replace(lower-case(normalize-space($string)),
'[^a-z0-9\s]+', ''), ' ', '_')
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Martin Honnen
http://msmvps.com/blogs/martin_honnen/
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