Re: [xsl] identifying series of numbers in text strings

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

Joyce Celeste Chapman wrote:

> Using XSL 1.0, is there a way I can search the contents of an element to 
> find series of 4-digit numbers? Then if there are two sets of 4-digit 
> numbers, I would like to select those values in order (I'll be 
> outputting them somewhere else as a date span), if there is only one 
> 4-digit set I'll need to output that a different way. Example of XML 
> below. Thanks to all in advance for the help!
>
> <date>23 July 2001-April 2006</date>
> <date>July 1996</date>
> <date>unknown</date>

Do you use an XSLT 1.0 processor that supports EXSLT? Then you could use 
http://www.exslt.org/regexp/functions/match/index.html.
Firefox 3.0 has support for that match function. With IE and MSXML you 
can use the implementation provided at the exslt.org site.


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