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Subject: Re: Pattern Matching a sting value
From: scott gabelhart <swgabel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 21:05:32 -0500
sql sting concat
Jim Fuller wrote:

[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of scott gabelhart
Sent: 06 February 2004 01:14
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Subject: Pattern Matching a sting value





How in XSLT 1.0 do you interogate a specific portion of a string?






$stg = "font:...;font-family:Arial;color:#FFFFF;...."

I am only interested in the portion of this string that contains Arial.



Not sure what interested means, if you want to test for the existance use the boolean contains() function;

contains($stg,'Arial') would return true

Otherwise use the following string based functions

	string substring-before(string, string)
	string substring-after(string, string)
	string substring(string, number, number?)
	string concat(string, string, string*)
	number string-length(string?)

You might need these as well;

	string normalize-space(string?)
	string translate(string, string, string)

Check out here for specific techniques;

http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N7240.html

Otherwise if you want something with regular expressions or more
advanced string handling like replacing text check out www.exslt.org.


Gl, Jim Fuller



XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list





Jim,

specifically I have a attribute that contains many values that I have to break apart and set to individual attribute values so
a string that contains "color:#FFFFF;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;" I would need to select only the value begining after the : in font-family and ending with;before font-weight.


Do any of the string function above support the functionality I am looking for? Thanks for the tip on the contains function. Already using that function to determine if a attribute string value contains font-family in the first place.

- Scott

XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list


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