AW:RE: Translating "("

Hi Michael,

Actually, I though about this way over the substring functions before (since I
am still using XSLT 1.0), but was hoping that there is a simplier way using
the translate function.

David was right, that not the angle brackets but my '"' character reference
(thanks for the terminological correction, David) was the reason for my saxon
exception.

I tried the work-around with concat() and now everything works out fine.
Thank you very much for your comprehensive and quick help!!
I can't await learning XSLT 2.0 :)

wbr,
Roman

> -----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Gesendet: Montag, 15. November 2004 14:04
> An: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff: RE:  Translating "("
>
> >
> > I need translate special characters like "(", ")" etc in <ln:term>.
> >
>
> You presumably want to generate element nodes in the result tree, rather
> than constructing angle brackets within a text node. To construct an
> element
> node, you need to use either a literal result element or xsl:element - you
> can't do it by generating the XML markup directly as a string.
>
> This use case (assuming parens are not nested) becomes very easy in XSLT
> 2.0
> with xsl:analyze-string: something like
>
> <xsl:analyze-string select="." regex="\(.*?\)">
>   <xsl:matching-substring>
>     <ln:term>
>       <xsl:value-of select="translate(., '()', '')"/>
>     </ln:term>
>   </xsl:matching-substring>
>   <xsl:non-matching-substring>
>     <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>   </xsl:non-matching-substring>
> </xsl:analyze-string>
>
> With 1.0, assuming you can have multiple instances of (..) within a text
> node, but not nested instances, it needs a recursive template along the
> following lines:
>
> output substring-before "("
> <ln:term>
>   output substring-before ")" substring-after "("
> </ln:term>
> recursive call to process substring-after ")"
>
> Michael Kay



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