Re: Patterns and scoped variables (or rather lack the

I see, you eliminate the multiple tokenize calls by encapsulating the
logic in a function which is called in the pattern.

Nice.

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 5:15 PM, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ihe,
>
> I will sometimes resort to stylesheet functions to provide
> encapsulation of logic like this.
>
> So (designed to return nothing when the input doesn't show two values
> when tokenized on the colon):
>
> <xsl:function name="ihe:colon-delimited-label" as="xs:string()?">
>   <xsl:param name="field" as="node()"/>
>   <xsl:variable name="split-on-colon" select="tokenize($field,'\s*:\s*')"/>
>   <xsl:if test="count($split-on-colon) eq 2">
>     <xsl:sequence select="$split-on-colon[1]"/>
>   <xsl:if>
> </xsl:function>
>
> So
>
> <xsl:template match="text()[count(tokenize(ihe:colon-delimited-label(.)),'\s*')
> le 3]">
>   ...
>
> I hope that helps,
> Wendell
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Transforming this sort of markup
>>
>> <div class="fr small subtle">Transaction date: Sep 26, 2013</div>
>>
>> into a key value pair.
>>
>> <Transactiondate>Sep 26, 2013</Transactiondate>
>>
>> However if there are too many words before the colon separator (the
>> key part) then it probably isn't suitable for the key value treatment
>> (the code below uses 3 words as the cutoff point).
>>
>> Talking of the code below and the thread title, the issue is how many
>> times I've had to (or think I've had to ) tokenize the string on colon
>> because I cannot (or think I cannot) introduce a let scoped variable
>> into the pattern.
>>
>>
>>  <xsl:template match="text()[count(tokenize(.,':')) eq 2 and
>> count(tokenize(tokenize(.,':')[1],'\s+')) lt 4]">
>>
>>     <xsl:variable name="keyValue" select="tokenize(.,':')"/>
>>
>>     <xsl:element name="{replace($keyValue[1],'\s+','')}"> .....key.....
>>       <xsl:value-of select="$keyValue[2]"/>
>> ......value.....
>>     </xsl:element>
>>
>>   </xsl:template>
>>
>> How else do I think I could do this.
>>
>> <xsl:template match="text()">
>>   <xsl:call-template name="dealWithText"
>> </xsl:template>
>>
>> <xsl:template name="dealWithText">
>>   <xsl:variable name="keyValue" select=tokenize ...etc>
>>   <xsl:choose>
>>     <xsl:when etc
>>
>> which of course camouflages the matchng rule inside the call template.
>>
>> Is this the best that can be done  or have I missed something.
>>
>
>
>
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