Re: Splitting a String Request

Hi Mike,

you can count the commas in a string and decide on this count:

<xsl:template match="PERSNAME">
    <PERSNAME NORMAL="{.}">
        <xsl:copy-of select="@*"/>
        <xsl:variable name="count-of-commas" select="string-length(.) -
string-length(translate(. , ',' , ''))"/>
        <xsl:choose>
            <xsl:when test="$count-of-commas = 1">
                <xsl:value-of select="substring-after(., ',')"/>
                <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(., ',')"/>
            </xsl:when>
            <xsl:otherwise>
                <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after(.,
','), ',')"/>
                <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(., ',')"/>
                <xsl:value-of select="substring-after(substring-after(.,
','), ',')"/>
            </xsl:otherwise>
        </xsl:choose>
    </PERSNAME>
</xsl:template>

Hope this helps,

Joerg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Ferrando" <mikeferrando@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 12:09 AM
Subject:  Splitting a String Request


> Dear Friends,
> Could someone give me the syntax for splitting a string?
>
> What I have presently is:
>
> <PERSNAME ENCODINGANALOG="100$a" ROLE="cmp">Abbott, Frank</PERSNAME>
>
> What I would like is:
> <PERSNAME ENCODINGANALOG="100$a" ROLE="cmp" NORMAL="Abbott,
> Frank">Frank Abbott</PERSNAME>
>
> It is possible that there might be an inverted title in these names:
> (Mrs.; Miss; Sir; Mme.; Lady)
>
> <PERSNAME ENCODINGANALOG="700$a" ROLE="lyr">Shacklock, C. L.,
> Mrs.</PERSNAME>
>
> What I would like would be:
> <PERSNAME ENCODINGANALOG="700$a" ROLE="lyr" NORMAL="Shacklock, C. L.,
> Mrs.">C. L. Shacklock, Mrs.</PERSNAME>
>
> The best thing to do might be to first search out all the names with
> titles and make a list. Run the xsl style sheet and then go back and
> edit or correct this small group of names. That might make the whole
> style sheet less complicated.
>
> I was thinking that it would be nice if I could retain the UTF-8
> coding (André instead of the usual output of &eacute;). Would it
> be a problem to use copy-of instead of value-of, since I am going to
> split a string?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Ferrando
> Washington, DC


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