Michael,
Thank you very much.
This is a simple and elegant solution. I did not know that I could use
substring-before and after in such a way. Guess I was stuck on the 'string'
part of the function name.
Once again thanks.
Marijan (Mario) Madunic
Publishing Specialist
New Flyer Industries
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2009 4:57 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] nodes() before and after a string delimiter
First find the text node containing the dash:
<xsl:variable name="textNode" select="text()[contains(.,' - ')][1] "/>
Create a <term> element containing all nodes preceding this text node, plus
the part of the text node before the dash:
<term>
<xsl:copy-of select="$textNode/preceding-sibling::node()"/>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($textNode, ' - ')"/>
</term>
Create a <definition> element containing everything that follows the dash:
<definition>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after($textNode, ' - ')"/>
<xsl:copy-of select="$textNode/following-sibling::node()"/>
</definition>
Regards,
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
-----Original Message-----
From: Mario Madunic [mailto:Mario_Madunic(_at_)newflyer(_dot_)com]
Sent: 28 October 2009 19:25
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: [xsl] nodes() before and after a string delimiter
I have the following element (I'm using Saxon9 and XSLT2)
<p>Crazing - Hairline cracking of the resin, giving it an
opaque, <q>frosty</q> appearance.</p>
I need to break it into two halves like the following based
on the - (space en dash space) and only the first - (space
en dash space).
<p>
<term>Crazing</term>
<definition>Hairline cracking of the resin, giving it an
opaque, <q>frosty</q> appearance.</definition> </p>
I'm used to breaking strings on delimiters and not worrying
about any inline elements, but his time the inline elements matter.
Is this a for-each-group solution? Break it into two
for-each-groups and in the first test for a
following-sibling[. = '-'] and the second test for the
following-sibling[. = '-'].
No need to apply templates at this point a copy-of will suffice.
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks
Marijan (Mario) Madunic
Publishing Specialist
New Flyer Industries
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