Re: match string

Zsolt Szabó wrote:

> I am trying to mach the first 3 words of a node
>
> I can mach the first word,
> <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($string,' ')"/>
>
> but how to match the other two?
>
> The only thing sure is, that I have to mach the three spaces after the 
> words. 
Here's a solution with a recursive template:

   <xsl:param name="split" select="3"/>
   <xsl:template match="para">
       <para><xsl:call-template name="splitwords"/></para>
   </xsl:template>
   <xsl:template name="splitwords">
       <xsl:param name="i" select="0"/>
       <xsl:param name="str1" select="''"/>
       <xsl:param name="str2" select="."/>
       <xsl:choose>
           <xsl:when test="$i &lt; $split">
               <xsl:choose>
                   <xsl:when test="contains($str2,' ')">
                       <xsl:call-template name="splitwords">
                           <xsl:with-param name="i" select="$i+1"/>
                           <xsl:with-param name="str1" 
select="concat($str1,substring-before($str2,' '),' ')"/>
                           <xsl:with-param name="str2" 
select="substring-after($str2,' ')"/>
                       </xsl:call-template>
                   </xsl:when>
                   <xsl:otherwise>
                       <xsl:call-template name="splitwords">
                           <xsl:with-param name="i" select="$split"/>
                           <xsl:with-param name="str1" 
select="concat($str1,$str2)"/>
                           <xsl:with-param name="str2" select="''"/>
                       </xsl:call-template>
                   </xsl:otherwise>
               </xsl:choose>
           </xsl:when>
           <xsl:otherwise>
               <b><xsl:value-of select="$str1"/></b>
               <xsl:value-of select="$str2"/>
           </xsl:otherwise>
       </xsl:choose>
   </xsl:template>

It's a bit cumbersome, but it works:

<input>
   <para>A sentence begins with a number of words.</para>
   <para>Here's a paragraph with 6 words.</para>
   <para>Short paragraph</para>
</input>

<output>
  <para><b>A sentence begins </b>with a number of words.</para>
  <para><b>Here's a paragraph </b>with 6 words.</para>
  <para><b>Short paragraph</b></para>
</output>

This too is much easier in XSLT2 I guess?

Cheers,
Anton