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Re: Xslt 2 stripping out non-numbers

2005-04-19 13:37:36
On 4/20/05, G. Ken Holman <gkholman(_at_)cranesoftwrights(_dot_)com> wrote:
I hope the below helps.

. . . . . . . Ken

t:\ftemp>type neff.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="text"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
   <xsl:variable name="target" select="'TUV0062'"/>

   <xsl:value-of select="number(
                          translate($target,
                           translate($target,'0123456789',''),''))"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>


This is the "double-translate" technique first proposed on this list
(to the best of my knowledge) by Mike Kay.

The FXSL template/function 

    str-filter

has been shown to perform better than the double-translate technique
on large strings:

  http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200203/msg01524.html


Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.

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