Re: Substring (pattern?) matching and reformatting

Giles Smith writes:
>I do not know which XML elements these will appear in, where they will
>appear in the string, or what they will be (although I can assume they
>will start with http:// ).

At least you have something to pump into the contains() function. It
looks like you'll have to put an xsl:if with a contains() test in
every template that might match on an element where an URL could
appear.

>The problem is therefore to identify the substring which represents
>the url, and then to insert the HTML link around it.

With substring-before and substring-after, you can pull the string
apart. Can you depend on the URL being surrounded by spaces? If not,
you may have some pain in detecting the end of the URL. Look at the
"replace" and "strings" topics in Dave Pawson's FAQ for some
details. Use xsl:attribute to generate the attribute. If you get it
running smoothly, send your stylesheet to Dave Pawson so he can add
it to the FAQ!
.................David Marston


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