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Subject: Re: tokenize a string with escaped spaces
From: "Mark Giffin m1879@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 01:17:10 -0000
Re:  tokenize a string with escaped spaces
Thanks Michael. The double quotes " in the regex give errors in this 
context:

<xsl:analyze-string select="$attr" regex="\S*('[^']*')?("[^"]*")?">

Should those be single quotes instead? Or should I put the regex in a 
variable?

On 4/3/2020 4:38 PM, Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Try using xsl:analyze-string with a regex of
>
> \S*('[^']*')?("[^"]*")?
>
> I've had to guess at your specification from your single example, but 
> you should be able to adapt it if the spec is different.
>
> You could also extend the regex to pick up the keyword (before '=') 
> and value (after '=') as captured substrings:
>
> (\S+)=(\S+|('[^']*')|("[^"]*"))
>
> and then regex-group(1) gives you the keyword, and regex-group(2) the 
> value.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
>
>> On 4 Apr 2020, at 00:17, Mark Giffin m1879@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>> <mailto:m1879@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>> <mailto:xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>> I am tokenizing an XML attribute that has info I need in it. Example:
>>
>> myattr="ng-model=mymodel ng-show-mymodel=='Radio button 1'"
>>
>> So I want to tokenize into these two values:
>>
>> ng-model=mymodel
>> ng-show='Radio button 1'
>>
>> Using white space like tokenize($attr, '\s') gives me this, not what 
>> I want:
>>
>> ng-model=mymodel
>> ng-show='Radio
>> button
>> 1'
>>
>> Do you have a suggestion on how to do this? Doesn't have to use 
>> tokenize().
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>>
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