Re: [xsl] A new XSLT function: node-set createTextNodes(object,object?)

Subject: Re: [xsl] A new XSLT function: node-set createTextNodes(object,object?)
From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:17:55 +0100
Hi Nic,

Miloslav Nic wrote:
> 
> The following  mail I have sent to  xsl-editors@xxxxxx
> with cc to "xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx".
> 
> node-set createTextNodes(object,object?)
> 
> Rationale: text handling is rather cumbersome in XSLT, some general
> method would be very useful
> 
> The proposed function takes the first argument and converts it
> into a string
> The second optional object is a separator (default = whitespaces \s+)
> 

IMHO, what would be really nice and really powerful would be to allow a
regular expression as 2nd parameter and to return a node set with the
matching substrings...

Eric
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