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> I've got the following Element: > > <Name>feeding{3adff2455fdd}</Name> > > The "{" is not at a fixed position. > Now how do I get the part of the string before "{" with XSLT? > I've tried using the substring-before(.,'{') function, but it doesn't work, > because "{" is sort of a control character. I've also tried writing "{" as hex > value and as CDATA in the substring-before() function, but it still doesn't > work. May I ask which processor you're using? The following <xsl:template match="Name"> <element att="{substring-before(.,'{')}"> <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(.,'{')" /> </element> </xsl:template> works without problems with xt, saxon, oracle and xalan. Cheers, Oliver /-------------------------------------------------------------------\ | ob|do Dipl.Inf. Oliver Becker | | --+-- E-Mail: obecker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | | op|qo WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~obecker | \-------------------------------------------------------------------/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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