Subject: Re: [xsl] identifying series of numbers in text strings From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:47:11 -0700 |
> 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. > EXSLT is not really needed: <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:template match="date"> <xsl:variable name="vUnits" select= "translate(., '0123456789', '1111111111')" /> <xsl:value-of select= "contains(substring-after($vUnits, '1111'), '1111')" /> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> Applied on this xml document: <t> <date>23 July 2001-April 2006</date> <date>July 1996</date> <date>unknown</date> </t> The result is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> true false false -- Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev --------------------------------------- Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. --------------------------------------- To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk ------------------------------------- Never fight an inanimate object ------------------------------------- You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > > -- > > Martin Honnen > http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
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