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Subject: XSL substrings
From: Mike Stroud <stroudmw@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:47:57 +0200
 XSL substrings
Hello Everyone,

I'm having a bit of a problem using substrings in XSL. I found the
following example on the internet:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<winelist>
    <wine>
      <winery>Lindeman's</winery>
      <product>Bin 65</product>
      <year>1998</year>
      <price>6.99</price>
      <binCode>15A-7</binCode>
   </wine>
   <wine>
      <winery>Benziger</winery>
      <product>Carneros</product>
      <year>1997</year>
      <price>7.55</price>
      <binCode>15C-5</binCode>
   </wine>
   <wine>
      <winery>Duckpond</winery>
      <product>Merit Selection</product>
      <year>1996</year>
      <price>14.99</price>
      <binCode>12D-1</binCode>
   </wine>
</winelist>

I then use the following XSL:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
   <xsl:template match="binCode">
    <productLocation>
      <row><xsl:value-of select="substring(text(),1,2)"/>
    </row>
      <shelf><xsl:value-of select="substring(.,3,1)"/>
    </shelf>
      <prodNum><xsl:value-of select="substring-after(text(),'-')"/>
    </prodNum>
    </productLocation>
  </xsl:template>
  </xsl:stylesheet>
And I get this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
Lindeman'sBin 6519986.99<productLocation>
<row>15</row>
<shelf>A</shelf>
<prodNum>7</prodNum>
</productLocation>BenzigerCarneros19977.55<productLocation>
<row>15</row>
<shelf>C</shelf>
<prodNum>5</prodNum>
</productLocation>DuckpondMerit Selection199614.99<productLocation>
<row>12</row>
<shelf>D</shelf>
<prodNum>1</prodNum>
</productLocation>

So far, so good.

However, my real-life example is slightly different. Here is a section
of my XML source:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AddedParts NAME="AddedParts" TYPE="Unknown" STATUS="0">
<Part>
  <Number>0000000025</Number>
  <DIMENSION>T=4 10x1618</DIMENSION>
</Part>
<Part>
  <Number>0000000026</Number>
  <DIMENSION>T=40 101x16</DIMENSION>
</Part>
</AddedParts>

What I want is to get "<Thickness>", which is the number after the
"T=", "<Length>" which the number before the "x" and <Width>" which is
the number after the "x".

I've tried the following:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text" indent="yes"/>
   	<xsl:template match="/">
		<xsl:for-each select="AddedParts/Part">
				<PartNo>
					<xsl:value-of select="Number"/>
					   <xsl:if test="position() != last()">
                                           <xsl:value-of select="','"/>
                                           </xsl:if>
                                           <xsl:if test="position()=last()">
                                           <xsl:value-of select="','"/>
                                           </xsl:if>
				</PartNo>
				<Width>
					<xsl:value-of select="DIMENSION"/>
					<xsl:value-of select="substring-after(text(),'x')"/>
					   <xsl:if test="position() != last()">
                                           <xsl:value-of select="','"/>
                                           </xsl:if>
                                           <xsl:if test="position()=last()">
                                           <xsl:value-of select="','"/>
                                           </xsl:if>
				</Width>
                  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

This is obviously intended to be in CSV format. What I'm getting for
"<Width>" is the entire "<DIMENSION>" string "T=4 10x1618", not just
the bit after the "x": "1618".
My question is how can I extract Thickness, Length and Width? I can't
use absolute positions because I have no idea how big or small the
values will be.

Many thanks,

Mike.

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