Marcel:
At 07:11 AM 1/31/2005, Jon wrote:
I am a newbie as well, but have found some good tools from the XSLT
Standard Library.
http://xsltsl.sourceforge.net/
I'm not a newbie, and I think this is an excellent answer.
Marcel, look at this, and also take a look at resources such as the XSL FAQ
on strings, Sal Mangano's "XSLT Cookbook" (O'Reilly), maybe Jeni Tennison's
"XSLT On the Edge".
The reason your question is hard to answer is that the kind of processing
you are asking about is somewhat outside what XSLT 1.0 is designed to do
("introspecting" into string values, not simply driving behavior from
markup), and therefore involves a fair amount of what Tommie (the list
owner) describes as "scratching your ear with your elbow". It's not
impossible: you can use a combination of translate(), string-length(),
string-before() and contains() to do it. But it's not pretty either.
For example: to express "'.' followed by two digits" you first have to do
something like
translate($string,'#0123456789','-##########')
to turn strings like "here's a #6 and a currency value $99.99" into "here's
a -# and a currency value $##.##" -- then you can use contains() or
substring($newstring, string-length($newstring - 3)) to find out if ".##"
is in it, or ends it -- because XSLT 1.0 has no notion of what's a digit.
It's all a little much to ask someone to write for free: a bit pesky, yet
not terribly interesting either. But no one wants to give an unhelpful
answer (so we don't).
I hope that isn't totally useless. Check out the online resources: this
kind of thing *has* been done before (and I've just given you some tips,
despite myself).
Cheers,
Wendell
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