This is slightly off-topic, but does anyone know why there is no
string function in XSL that does what the "last-index-of" Java String
function does? (or is there one?) A recursive function seems rather
slow for this kind of (common) operation.
The function library in XPath 1.0 was designed on minimalist principles: if
you could do something yourself, there was no need for another function.
XPath 2.0 support for regular expressions makes this kind of thing much
easier (and possibly more efficient, though I wouldn't guarantee it: there's
no intrinsic reason why recursion should be slow).
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Hans
On 8/22/05, David Carlisle <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:
I have also noticed the hex - I use oxygen and it seems
to put in this hex
in the strangest of places.
I think it's a microsoft-encoded left quote, whgich is OK
if you declare
a microsoft encoding in your xml (and xsl) files, and your
parser knows
that encoding. But it's not a lot of point posting fragments of xml
using that as if anyone tries to parse that using the default utf8
encoding tehy just get told the file is not well formed as
hex 85 isn't
a legal utf8 encoding of anything.
There are plenty of replace templates in the faq, something like
<xsl:template name="x">
<xsl:param name="x" select="extract"/>
<xsl:if test="contains($x,'.')">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($x,'.')"/>
<xsl:text>.</xsl:text>
<xsl:call-template name="x">
<xsl:with-param name="x" select="substring-after($x,'.')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
That discards everything after the the last . (and the
whole thing if
there isn't a ., so you just need to call that if there is a . in
extract. (untested)
David
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