Re: reading a .xsv file in xslt

There's certainly many ways how one can vary this, with field names
being used as tags rather
than attribute values, etc.

Also, it's easy to extend this to a wider range of formats, i.e., DSV,
by adding another
parameter and a dynamically constructed split pattern although being able to
use
pattern metacharacters as a field delimiter may require additional
precautions.
(My "test" data file uses semicolons as delimiters.)

<xsl:param name="fieldDel">,</xsl:param>
<xsl:variable name="p1">(("[^"]*")+|[^</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="splitPattern" select="concat($p1, $fieldDel,
']*)', $fieldDel)" />

<xsl:function name="fn:getTokens" as="xs:string+">
    <xsl:param name="str" as="xs:string" />
    <xsl:analyze-string select="concat($str, $fieldDel)"
regex='{$splitPattern}'>


Thanks for this instructive example!

-W

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>
> > Also, but purely as a matter of taste and case, since all cell values are
> > strings, I would tend to use attributes, replacing
> >       <elem name="{.}">
> >       <xsl:value-of select="$lineItems[$pos]" />
> >       </elem>
> > with
> >        <xsl:attribute name="{.}" select="$lineItems[$pos]"/>