RE: Tokenize comma separated string in XSL

Hi,

I am using XSLT 1.0 In the XSL I get the comma separated string
ABC,DEF,GHI as a parameter which is set by a Java program.

The output XML should be:

<AllCodes>
   <Code value = "A">
      <Description="ABC"/>
   </Code>
  <Code value = "D">
      <Description="DEF"/>
   </Code>
  <Code value = "G">
      <Description="GHI"/>
   </Code>
</AllCodes>

Can you please give me an example on the recursive template using
substring-before and substring-after?

Thanks,
Lalit



-----Original Message-----
From: Abel Braaksma [mailto:abel.online@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 4:50 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  Tokenize comma separated string in XSL

Lalit.Chanchlani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have a comma-separated string like ABC,DEF,GHI which I want to
> tokenize and return to a template which retrieves separately its
> corresponding code from a XML input.
>
What version of XSLT are you using?

In XSLT 2, this is:

<xsl:for-each select="tokenize($your_input, ',')" >
    <Description value="{.}" />
</xsl:for-each>

In XSLT 1, use a recursive template call with substring-before and
substring-after to "walk" through the string.

> The output should be:
>
> <AllCodes>
>    <Code value = "A">
>       <Description="ABC">
>
your output is not valid XML and as such is not (easily) possible with
XSLT. I assume you meant something else?

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma
   http://www.nuntia.nl



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