On 4/26/06, David Carlisle <davidc(_at_)nag(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="2.0"
>
<xsl:variable name="str" select="'one,two,three,four,five'" as="xs:string"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/>
<xsl:variable name="length" select="10" as="xs:integer"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"/>
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template name="x">
<xsl:analyze-string select="$str" regex=".{{0,{$length}}},">
<xsl:matching-substring>
<words><xsl:value-of select="substring(.,1,string-length(.)-1)"/></words>
</xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:non-matching-substring>
<words><xsl:value-of select="."/></words>
</xsl:non-matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
$ saxon8 -it x split.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<words>one,two</words>
<words>three,four</words>
<words>five</words>
Thanks this is really good... so what's going on in the regex? :) I
fear maintenance issues when I have to revisit the code in a few
months time.....
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