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RE: problem with substring()

2005-04-27 05:27:29
Perhaps it's not really a space but some other character that looks like a
space, for example a non-breaking space.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rahil [mailto:qamar_rahil(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk] 
Sent: 27 April 2005 13:04
To: XSL List
Subject: [xsl] problem with substring()

Hi

I cant understand what Ive done wrong with my code that I 
aint getting 
any output.


<xsl:variable name="Val" select="text()"/>
 <testVar><xsl:value-of select="$Val"/></testVar> <!--Prints 
the output 
'hello there'-->

<xsl:variable name="firstVal" select="substring-before($Val,' ')"/> 
<!--empty result instead of 'hello'-->
<xsl:variable name="secondVal" select="substring-after($Val,' ')"/> 
<!--empty result instead of 'there'-->

Ive tried using another delimiter such 'a' in the substring() 
method and 
that works but not a space. Ive been regularly using this 
criteria in my 
other files and Ive had no problem. I even tried typeasting 
text() and 
Val to type string() but that dint work either. The problem 
seems to be 
in the space delimiter.

Ive tried everything I could to check why it isnt working but cant 
figure it out.

Could someone please help.

Thanks
Rahil

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