At 2009-10-28 13:44 -0700, Larry Hayashi wrote:
Is there a function in XSLT 1.1
XSLT 1.1 was formally abandoned in August 2001 and should not be used
... read the notice in the status section of this document:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xslt11-20010824/
that will extract words from a string?
I'd like to be able to take <text>Jill ran up the hill.</text> and get
the following:
<words>
<word>Jill</word>
<word>ran</word>
<word>up</word>
<word>the</word>
<word>hill.</word>
</words>
In XSLT 2.0 you can use tokenize().
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . . . . . Ken
T:\ftemp>type larry.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="2.0">
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<words>
<xsl:for-each select="tokenize('Jill ran up the hill.','\s+')">
<word>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</word>
</xsl:for-each>
</words>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
T:\ftemp>xslt2 larry.xsl larry.xsl con
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<words>
<word>Jill</word>
<word>ran</word>
<word>up</word>
<word>the</word>
<word>hill.</word>
</words>
T:\ftemp>
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