Re: [xsl] Concatenating string values of a sequence

Subject: Re: [xsl] Concatenating string values of a sequence
From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 21:21:29 +0100
2009/8/4 Christopher R. Maden <crism@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Im finally getting around to XSLT 2.0 and having fun with grouping and
> tokenizing.
>
> But Im stymied on this: I need to tokenize a string that may span
> multiple text nodes or elements.  The tokenize() function wont take a
> sequence of more than one as its first argument, and I cant figure out
> how to concatenate the values of the nodes in the set in situ (Ive even
> tried a FLWR expression!).
>
>  tokenize( current-group()[position() > 1], '\s*;\s*' )
>
> is what I have right now.  Ive tried wrapping the sequence in concat()
> (which wants more than one argument), in string-join(), and a FLWR that
> just resulted in a sequence of strings rather than a concatenation.

how about:

current-group()[position() > 1]/tokenize(. , '\s*;\s*' )



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