On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Michael Kay <mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com>
wrote:
if para2 is an empty element, then the regex success and
return an empty string. How do I express in my regex that
empty is a non-matching regex ?
Further to Joe's response: analyze-string partitions the input string into a
sequence of substrings, passing substrings that match the regex to
xsl:matching-substring and those that don't match to
xsl:non-matching-substring. If the input is empty, there will be no
substrings, therefore no calls on either xsl:matching-substring or
xsl:non-matching-substring.
If you want to test whether the string as a whole matches the regex, use the
matches() function.
Ok I think I am getting closer now. My goal is simply to recursively
iterate over preceeding <para> element in search for a matching regex.
I must have made a mistake with the recusion calls...
<article>
<para>C.1. section</para>
<para>C.1.1 section</para>
<para>bla</para>
<para>C.1.1.1 section</para> <!-- correct solution -->
<para>foo</para>
<para/>
<para>bar</para>
<table>mytable</table>
</article>
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:variable name="myregex">^([CF]\.[0-9\.]+)\s*(.*)$</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template name="get-section-reference">
<xsl:param name="article"/>
<xsl:param name="n"/>
<xsl:variable name="para" select="article/preceding::para[$n]"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="matches($para, $myregex)">
<xsl:analyze-string select="." regex="{$myregex}">
<xsl:matching-substring>
<match>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</match>
</xsl:matching-substring>
<!-- no need to non matching-substring case -->
</xsl:analyze-string>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="get-section-reference">
<xsl:with-param name="article" select="."/>
<xsl:with-param name="n" select="$n+1"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<!--
-->
<xsl:template match="/">
<output>
<xsl:for-each select="//table">
<xsl:call-template name="get-section-reference">
<xsl:with-param name="article" select="."/>
<xsl:with-param name="n" select="1"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:for-each>
</output>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
--
Mathieu
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