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At 2008-08-18 15:46 -0700, Mark Wilson wrote:
I have an element <Person>Benes (senior), Frances</Person>. You can use regular expression groups in XSLT using unescaped parentheses. I hope the example below helps where I wrap the text before, in, and after as three groups. Creating the third group is unnecessary, but I left it in for completeness. You might need something more creative based on what you allow in your input. . . . . . . . . . . Ken t:\ftemp>type wilson.xml <Person>Benes (senior), Frances</Person> t:\ftemp>type wilson.xsl <?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0"> <xsl:template match="*"> <xsl:element name="{name(.)}" namespace="{namespace-uri(.)}"> <xsl:value-of select="replace(., '(.*)(\([a-zA-Z]+\))(.*)', '$2' )"/> </xsl:element> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> t:\ftemp>xslt2 wilson.xml wilson.xsl con <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Person>(senior)</Person> t:\ftemp> -- Upcoming XSLT/XSL-FO hands-on courses: Wellington, NZ 2009-01 Training tools: Comprehensive interactive XSLT/XPath 1.0/2.0 video G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/ Male Cancer Awareness Nov'07 http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/s/bc Legal business disclaimers: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal
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