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Wendell Piez <mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Marcel: > > At 07:11 AM 1/31/2005, Jon wrote: >> I am a newbie as well, but have found some good tools from the XSLT >> Standard Library. http://xsltsl.sourceforge.net/ > > I'm not a newbie, and I think this is an excellent answer. > > Marcel, look at this, and also take a look at resources such as the > XSL FAQ on strings, Sal Mangano's "XSLT Cookbook" (O'Reilly), maybe > Jeni Tennison's "XSLT On the Edge". > > The reason your question is hard to answer is that the kind of > processing you are asking about is somewhat outside what XSLT 1.0 is > designed to do ("introspecting" into string values, not simply > driving behavior from markup), and therefore involves a fair amount > of what Tommie (the list owner) describes as "scratching your ear > with your elbow". It's not impossible: you can use a combination of > translate(), string-length(), string-before() and contains() to do > it. But it's not pretty either. > > For example: to express "'.' followed by two digits" you first have > to do something like > > translate($string,'#0123456789','-##########') > > to turn strings like "here's a #6 and a currency value $99.99" into > "here's a -# and a currency value $##.##" -- then you can use > contains() or substring($newstring, string-length($newstring - 3)) to > find out if ".##" is in it, or ends it -- because XSLT 1.0 has no > notion of what's a digit. > > It's all a little much to ask someone to write for free: a bit pesky, > yet not terribly interesting either. But no one wants to give an > unhelpful answer (so we don't). > > I hope that isn't totally useless. Check out the online resources: > this kind of thing *has* been done before (and I've just given you > some tips, despite myself). It's not useless at all - very helpful. I knew the code to achieve what I need would probabely turn out to be very ugly. I didn't expect it to be that bad, though ;-) Although I'm knew to XSLT I'll go down that road. Regards, Marcel
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