Subject: Re: [xsl] the last substring From: "Christopher R. Maden" <crism@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 20:33:00 -0800 |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 19:50 18-11-2001, Steve Ball wrote: >yan bai wrote: > >>I have an element like: >><elem>xxxxx.xxxxx.xxxx.1234</elem> >> >>I know substring-before() will read the value before >>the first '.'. >>I wonder how I can read the value after the last '.', >>namely 1234. > > >Last week I added a new template to the XSLT Standard Library >for retrieving the substring after the last occurrance of >a given substring. You could also try reverse(substring-before(reverse(.),'.')) I was a little startled myself to find that there was no ends-with() function, but a similar approach worked there, too. ~Chris - -- Christopher R. Maden, Principal Consultant, HMM Consulting Int'l, Inc. DTDs/schemas - conversion - ebooks - publishing - Web - B2B - training <URL: http://www.hmmci.com/ > <URL: http://crism.maden.org/consulting/ > PGP Fingerprint: BBA6 4085 DED0 E176 D6D4 5DFC AC52 F825 AFEC 58DA -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.5.8 iQA/AwUBO/iLe6xS+CWv7FjaEQKIEACgk7HjD+tyOamdxK4rnL4fkJ2REZYAn0Ji S+sJTizXHn1XpGihKmquDhd4 =gDAl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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