RE: [xsl] XSL substrings

I'd probably go the route of tokenizing, something like this...

                <xsl:variable name="dim" select="tokenize(DIMENSION, '[=
x]')"/>
                <xsl:variable name="thickness" select="$dim[2]"/>
                <xsl:variable name="length" select="$dim[3]"/>
                <xsl:variable name="width" select="$dim[4]"/>

Then you just use the variables by name or you could get rid of the
variables and just reference the tokens by index. I personally prefer
the readability of named variables.

~Jeremy

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Stroud [mailto:stroudmw(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com] 
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2009 4:48 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] XSL substrings

Hello Everyone,

I'm having a bit of a problem using substrings in XSL. I found the
following example on the internet:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<winelist>
    <wine>
      <winery>Lindeman's</winery>
      <product>Bin 65</product>
      <year>1998</year>
      <price>6.99</price>
      <binCode>15A-7</binCode>
   </wine>
   <wine>
      <winery>Benziger</winery>
      <product>Carneros</product>
      <year>1997</year>
      <price>7.55</price>
      <binCode>15C-5</binCode>
   </wine>
   <wine>
      <winery>Duckpond</winery>
      <product>Merit Selection</product>
      <year>1996</year>
      <price>14.99</price>
      <binCode>12D-1</binCode>
   </wine>
</winelist>

I then use the following XSL:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
   <xsl:template match="binCode">
    <productLocation>
      <row><xsl:value-of select="substring(text(),1,2)"/>
    </row>
      <shelf><xsl:value-of select="substring(.,3,1)"/>
    </shelf>
      <prodNum><xsl:value-of select="substring-after(text(),'-')"/>
    </prodNum>
    </productLocation>
  </xsl:template>
  </xsl:stylesheet>
And I get this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
Lindeman'sBin 6519986.99<productLocation> <row>15</row> <shelf>A</shelf>
<prodNum>7</prodNum>
</productLocation>BenzigerCarneros19977.55<productLocation>
<row>15</row>
<shelf>C</shelf>
<prodNum>5</prodNum>
</productLocation>DuckpondMerit Selection199614.99<productLocation>
<row>12</row>
<shelf>D</shelf>
<prodNum>1</prodNum>
</productLocation>

So far, so good.

However, my real-life example is slightly different. Here is a section
of my XML source:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<AddedParts NAME="AddedParts" TYPE="Unknown" STATUS="0"> <Part>
  <Number>0000000025</Number>
  <DIMENSION>T=4 10x1618</DIMENSION>
</Part>
<Part>
  <Number>0000000026</Number>
  <DIMENSION>T=40 101x16</DIMENSION>
</Part>
</AddedParts>

What I want is to get "<Thickness>", which is the number after the "T=",
"<Length>" which the number before the "x" and <Width>" which is the
number after the "x".

I've tried the following:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
<xsl:output method="text" indent="yes"/>
        <xsl:template match="/">
                <xsl:for-each select="AddedParts/Part">
                                <PartNo>
                                        <xsl:value-of select="Number"/>
                                           <xsl:if test="position() !=
last()">
                                           <xsl:value-of select="','"/>
                                           </xsl:if>
                                           <xsl:if
test="position()=last()">
                                           <xsl:value-of select="','"/>
                                           </xsl:if>
                                </PartNo>
                                <Width>
                                        <xsl:value-of
select="DIMENSION"/>
                                        <xsl:value-of
select="substring-after(text(),'x')"/>
                                           <xsl:if test="position() !=
last()">
                                           <xsl:value-of select="','"/>
                                           </xsl:if>
                                           <xsl:if
test="position()=last()">
                                           <xsl:value-of select="','"/>
                                           </xsl:if>
                                </Width>
                  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

This is obviously intended to be in CSV format. What I'm getting for
"<Width>" is the entire "<DIMENSION>" string "T=4 10x1618", not just the
bit after the "x": "1618".
My question is how can I extract Thickness, Length and Width? I can't
use absolute positions because I have no idea how big or small the
values will be.

Many thanks,

Mike.

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