Re: [xsl] finding a bracket: "{"

[Johannes Döbler <jd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<xsl:variable name="brace">{</xsl:variable>
...
substring-before(.,$brace)

Cheers,
Johannes


> Hi,
>
> I've got the following Element:
>
> <Name>feeding{3adff2455fdd}</Name>
>
> The "{" is not at a fixed position.
> Now how do I get the part of the string before "{" with XSLT?
> I've tried  using the substring-before(.,'{') function, but it doesn't work,
> because "{" is sort of a control character. I've also tried writing "{" as 
> hex
> value and as CDATA in the substring-before() function, but it still doesn't
> work.
>
> Does anybody have an idea how to solve this problem?
>
>
> Greetings, Sebastian Werner.



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