Re: analyze-string and child nodes

Thank you David. The template works perfectly. I only needed to add one ] near
the end of the match line. The take-away message for me: when one wants to
apply-templates with regular expressions, use replace() instead of
analyze-string. Is that an accurate summary of the approach?

Terry


On May 10, 2010, at 12:22 PM, David Carlisle wrote:

> On 10/05/2010 17:16, Terry Ofner wrote:
>> I am placing numbered paragraphs into table rows and cells using the
following template:
>>
>> <xsl:template
match="p[@class=('selectionindent_numbered','oldstyles-numbered','bodytext-nu
mbered')]">
>>            <xsl:analyze-string select="." regex="^ ?(\d\d?) (.*)">
>
>
> you only want to analyse the first (text) node so change the above to
>
>
> <xsl:template
match="p[@class=('selectionindent_numbered','oldstyles-numbered','bodytext-nu
mbered')][node()[1][self::text()]">
> <row>
> <cell>
> <xsl:value-of select="replace(text()[1],'^ ?(\d\d?) (.*)','$1')"/></cell>
> <cell>
> <xsl:value-of select="replace(text()[1],'^ ?(\d\d?) (.*)','$2')"/>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="node()[position()!=1]"/>
> </cell>
> </row>
> </xsl;template>
>
>
> David
> (untested, so modulo my typing accuracy)
>
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