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RE: string question
- To: "Jeni Tennison" <mail at jenitennison dot com>
- Subject: RE: [xsl] string question
- From: "David Santamauro" <david dot santamauro at snet dot net>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 01:35:51 -0500
- Cc: "Xsl-List" <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
thanks for the clues... unfortunately, everything is variable (length and
punctuation).
I'll try your and Michael's solution and report back on the progess. Once
again, thanks.
David
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeni Tennison [mailto:mail@jenitennison.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 08:10
To: David Santamauro
Cc: Xsl-List
Subject: Re: [xsl] string question
Hi David,
>>From this xml (those IP persons might recognize this):
> <b310>08/773,384</b310>
>
> I need:
> PR_08/773,384 PR_08 PR_773 PR_384
>
> Basically, all punctuation (and spaces) are "segment" delimiters. Starting
> with entire content, each segment is then prefixed with PR_. Any help
would
> be greatly appreciated.
Assuming that your strings are always of the form:
DD/DDD,DDD
(where D is a digit) you could use:
PR_<xsl:value-of select="b310" />
PR_<xsl:value-of select="substring(b310, 1, 2)" />
PR_<xsl:value-of select="substring(b310, 4, 3)" />
PR_<xsl:value-of select="substring(b310, 8, 3)" />
If the lengths of the different parts of the strings can vary, then
you need to use substring-before() and substring-after():
PR_<xsl:value-of select="b310" />
PR_<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(b310, '/')" />
PR_<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(
substring-after(b310, '/'), ',')" />
PR_<xsl:value-of select="substring-after(
substring-after(b310, '/'), ',')" />
If there can be more parts to the string, then you need a recursive
solution. If that's the case, then can you write a general pattern
for the string, and we'll try to work something out?
I hope that helps,
Jeni
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