I'm a newbie to XLST and looking for good reference books.
Would you consider "Mastering XSLT, by Chuck White" as a better book than say,
"XSLT 2nd Edition - Wrox Press, by Michael Kay"???
Simon
-----Original Message-----
From: John Pallister [mailto:jpallister(_at_)engenius(_dot_)com]
Sent: 01 October 2002 15:39
To: 'xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com'
Subject: RE: [xsl] replace function
That happens to be the same as the example I had referred you
to earlier.
You can use a replace template. Chuck White has an example
on page 594 of
his book Mastering XSLT
Sorry if you thought I was being derogatory, I am a newbie
too. Next time I
won't be so lazy and will type out the solution...
-----Original Message-----
From: Stevenson Ngila
[mailto:Stevenson(_at_)epr(_dot_)footman-walker(_dot_)com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 3:00 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] replace function
Thanks Michael Kay, i wrote one and it worked perfectly. See it below:
<xsl:template name="stringSpacing">
<xsl:param name="sString"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($sString, ',')">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($sString, ',')"/>, 
<xsl:call-template name="stringSpacing">
<xsl:with-param name="sString"
select="substring-after($sString,
',')" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$sString"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com]On Behalf Of
Michael Kay
Sent: 30 September 2002 23:06
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] replace function
e is get a string i.e.
"steve,john,peter" and replace the next word to a comma with
a space hence the new string become "steve, john, peter" how
can i achieve this using the translate function?
Although people have written solutions to this that you can use
off-the-shelf, it's worth learning how to write the code yourself. You
need a recursive template, it should use substring-before() to output
the string before the first comma, then output ", ", then use
substring-after() and call itself to process the rest of the string
after the first comma.
Any good XSLT textbook will have examples of this.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael(_dot_)H(_dot_)Kay(_at_)ntlworld(_dot_)com
work: Michael(_dot_)Kay(_at_)softwareag(_dot_)com
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