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RE: pattern matching in xslt

Subject: RE: pattern matching in xslt
From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 22:21:09 +0100
xslt pattern match format
As others have said, it depends greatly on your definition of "trash". You
might be able to get away with

normalize-space(translate(., '.?!#~', ''))

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx
work: Michael.Kay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
> David Nelson
> Sent: 23 April 2002 21:32
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject:  pattern matching in xslt
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I would sincerely apprec. any help you might offer.  What I
> need to do is
> tokenize a node value into chunks, filter the trash and
> return in the xml,
> the new clean string. I'm a newbie with xslt and am having a
> tough time
> deciphering how to accomplish this.
>
> As an examle:
>
> <document>
> 	<description>The quick .. brown fox .. jumped over ..
> the lazy ..
> programmer</description>
> </document>
>
> apply xsl and return: <result>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
> programmer</result>
>
> Any recomendations on how to do this?  I have combed the
> documentation I
> have so I could also use advice on better documentation as to the
> implementation of XSLT.  Specifically, I'm using Xalan.
>
> Thanks!
>
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