[xsl] Re: Breaking a string into repeated elements

Subject: [xsl] Re: Breaking a string into repeated elements
From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2002 13:09:56 -0700 (PDT)
> The construct in question looks like this:
> 
> <ListOfItems>10, 20, 30, 31</ListOfItems>
> 
> and I want to make it look like this:
> 
> <ListOfItems howMany="4">
>     <Item>10</Item>
>     <Item>20</Item>
>     <Item>30</Item>
>     <Item>31</Item>
> </ListOfItems>
> 
> Note that the existing <ListOfItems> may be delimited by either 
> spaces, commas, or commas and spaces.
> 
> I figure that I need to use some combination of substring() and some
> other string functions, but am unsure of where to start.

This is a quite FAQ. The short answer is that you can do this easily
with the FXSL library. Example code that solves exactly this type of
problem can be found at:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2002-05/msg01295.html
or
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2002-04/msg01350.html

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.



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