RE: breaking string into substrings or arrays

If you search http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list for tokenize, you
should be able to find examples of Michael's suggestions.

Douglas Ross
Developer, HTML UI Framework
Kronos
www.kronos.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:03 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  breaking string into substrings or arrays

In XSLT 1.0 you have a choice:

(a) write a recursive template that bites off one token each time it's
called using substring-before

(b) use a tokenize() function from a library such as EXSLT
(www.exslt.org).

In 2.0 use the built-in tokenize() function, or xsl:analyze-string.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rahil's Yahoo Mail [mailto:qamar_rahil@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 19 April 2005 15:57
> To: XSL List
> Subject:  breaking string into substrings or arrays
>
> Hi
>
> Is it possible to break up a text() node which contains a
> string for e.g.
>
> <Value>[Alpha, Beta, Gamma]</Value>
>
> into
>
> <Value>Alpha</Value>
> <Value>Beta</Value>
> <Value>Gamma</Value>
>
> ?
> Is there any equivalent for arrays in XPath to break a long string as
> above based on a token such as comma (,) ?
>
> Regards
> Rahil