RE: Re: How to match a element + part of an immediate

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Subject: RE: Re: How to match a element + part of an immediate text sibling?
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:23:45 -0500

At 04:59 AM 1/14/2004, Mike wrote:

...
Secondly, there is nothing in XSLT 1.0 that allows you to split a string
into its component words. You can do it yourself using a recursive
template (there are examples in my book XSLT Programmers Reference), or
you can use a vendor- or third-party extension function xx:tokenize().

This may seem obvious and gratuitous (for which I apologize), but I hasten to add that this is only a *particular* notion of what a "word" is (a substring delimited by white space), which may not be robust enough for all purposes. For example, if your input reads

 the quick brown fox, ears up, jumps 

you may want your output to read not

 the quick brown fox, ears up, jumps 

but

 the quick brown fox, ears up, jumps 

which will require a more sophisticated definition of the concept of a "word", and which will not be so tractable using basic substringing around whitespace (or a simple tokenize function either, FTM).

This kind of thing is not impossible to work around in most real-world cases, but since XSLT 1.0 is not designed for up-conversion, it can get pretty hairy.

But it all depends on the actual processing requirements for the data. Caveat lector.

Cheers,
Wendell


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Re: How to match a element + part of an immediate text sibling? Chulsung Kim - Tue, 13 Jan 2004 23:14:45 -0500 (EST) kakridge - Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:18:27 -0500 (EST) David Carlisle - Wed, 14 Jan 2004 04:59:40 -0500 (EST) Michael Kay - Wed, 14 Jan 2004 04:59:52 -0500 (EST) Wendell Piez - Wed, 14 Jan 2004 11:36:50 -0500 (EST) <= Dimitre Novatchev - Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:15:56 -0500 (EST)

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