RE: Extract attribute from markup returned by extensio

(a) do you want an XSLT 1.0 or 2.0 solution?

(b) how robust must it be? Do you have to deal with pathological input such
as

<img alt='src="this/is/a/decoy"' src="this/is/real"/>

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



> -----Original Message-----
> From: John [mailto:john-xsl-list@xxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 03 August 2005 18:17
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  Extract attribute from markup returned by 
> extension function
> 
> Hello,
> 
> An XSL extension function returns markup such as <img 
> src="/path/to/image.jpg" border="0" alt="" />.  I can't 
> guarantee the / 
> will be provided so it may not be XML markup.  I am only 
> interested in 
> the value of the src attribute.  I am hoping the code can be 
> as flexible 
> as possible (attributes could appear in any order, and it 
> would be nice 
> to support single quotes (') in addition to double-quotes (") in the 
> data.  I was thinking of starting with the string functions, but I am 
> curious if there might be a better way.
> 
> TIA,
> 
>     -John