Re: [xsl] parsing a long string into chunks

Subject: Re: [xsl] parsing a long string into chunks
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:27:27 -0400
Tim,

David has mentioned Saxon's tokenize function.

An extension function is necessary because (as you have discovered) string-processing really isn't XSLT's forte.

XSLT 2 will have facilities for this.

Also, this job can be done by another tool in a pre-process. For example, a SAX parser could be enhanced to do this -- then you'd have the full string-processing capabilities of the host language (Java or whatever).

Simon St. Laurent has done work on what he calls "Regular Fragmentations", based on this approach and is useful for this kind of thing. (Google is your friend. :-)

Good luck,
Wendell

At 12:32 PM 4/10/2003, you wrote:
Can anyone think of a better way, especially a way of splitting up without
the need for a second pass?  What I'd really like is a trivial way to make
xsl treat the string as a node list split at whitespace, but I suspect that
that isn't possible!


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