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RE: [xsl] How to substitute a portion of the text value of an element

2008-10-07 16:54:11
Apply it to $old and $new at the time you declare the variables, then

    <xsl:variable name="f" select="translate(., '/', '\')"/>
    <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($f,$old)"/>
    <xsl:value-of select="$new"/>
    <xsl:value-of select="substring-after($f,$old)"/>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul [mailto:pflists(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com] 
Sent: 07 October 2008 21:43
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] How to substitute a portion of the text 
value of an element

The difficulty I guess is knowing when to apply the translate.

Ken's code above in the thread:

 <xsl:copy>
   <xsl:value-of select="substring-before(.,$old)"/>
   <xsl:value-of select="$new"/>
   <xsl:value-of select="substring-after(.,$old)"/>
</xsl:copy>

needs to have the substring-before work if the slashes in 
$old and the slashes in the . are different. Perhaps I need 
to first translate all occurrences to some canonical form 
before I do the substring-before or substring-after test if 
that is possible.

Paul


On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Syd Bauman 
<Syd_Bauman(_at_)brown(_dot_)edu> wrote:
Is there a function I can call to first convert the slashes to one 
unified format before applying the substring?

translate(.,'\','/')



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