Re: [xsl] String cleaning in XSLT and XQuery

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

James Cummings wrote:

> <xsl:function name="jc:cleanString" as="xs:string">
>      <xsl:param name="string"/>
>      <xsl:variable name="cleanedString">
>      <xsl:analyze-string select="lower-case(normalize-space($string))"
> regex="[a-zA-Z0-9\s]+">
>          <xsl:matching-substring><xsl:value-of select="translate(., '
> ', '_')"/></xsl:matching-substring>
>          <xsl:non-matching-substring/>
>      </xsl:analyze-string>
>      </xsl:variable>
>      <xsl:value-of select="$cleanedString"/>
>   </xsl:function>

> a) Am I doing this in a good way? Anything I've overlooked? (Always
> happy to get tips on making things that already work better!)

Doesn't using the replace function suffice for your requirement?
  translate(replace(lower-case(normalize-space($string)), 
'[^a-z0-9\s]+', ''), ' ', '_')



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