Thanks!
That was perfect.
Mark
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From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman(_at_)CraneSoftwrights(_dot_)com>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 4:59 PM
To: <xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>
Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath (regex?) question about $& in an XSLT stylesheet
Actually, even creating the first group is unnecessary. This revision
only captures a single group being the parenthesized content of the
string.
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . . Ken
t:\ftemp>type wilson.xml
<Person>Benes (senior), Frances</Person>
t:\ftemp>type wilson.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="2.0">
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:value-of select="replace(., '.*(\([a-zA-Z]+\)).*', '$1' )"/>
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
t:\ftemp>xslt2 wilson.xml wilson.xsl con
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Person>(senior)</Person>
t:\ftemp>
At 2008-08-18 19:07 -0400, I wrote:
At 2008-08-18 15:46 -0700, Mark Wilson wrote:
I have an element
<Person>Benes (senior), Frances</Person>.
I can remove the '(senior)' from the data using
<xsl:value-of select="replace(., '\([a-zA-Z]+\)', ' ' )"/>
which gives me
<Person>Benes , Frances</Person>
but I want just the opposite:
<Person>(senior)</Person>
You can use regular expression groups in XSLT using unescaped parentheses.
I hope the example below helps where I wrap the text before, in, and after
as three groups. Creating the third group is unnecessary, but I left it
in for completeness. You might need something more creative based on what
you allow in your input.
. . . . . . . . . . Ken
t:\ftemp>type wilson.xml
<Person>Benes (senior), Frances</Person>
t:\ftemp>type wilson.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="2.0">
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:element name="{name(.)}" namespace="{namespace-uri(.)}">
<xsl:value-of select="replace(., '(.*)(\([a-zA-Z]+\))(.*)', '$2' )"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
t:\ftemp>xslt2 wilson.xml wilson.xsl con
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Person>(senior)</Person>
t:\ftemp>
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