Re: [xsl] XSL - parsing a delimited string (URL)

[web138p1 <web138p1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have an XML element that might might be empty or might contain: 
> ;#http://www.blah.com/blah/blah2/blah.doc;# or: 
>
>
;#http://www.blah.com/blah/blah3/blah.doc;#http://www.blah.com/blah/blah/blah.doc;#
>
> How do I tokenize the string so that I can get only that first
occurrence?
> That is, only the first URL (if any) between the delimiters ... ? 


Only first occurence ==> no recursion needed.

$ cat data.xml
<data>;#http://www.blah.com/blah/blah3/blah.doc;#http://www.blah.com/blah/blah4/blah.doc;#</data>
$
$ xpath++ "substring-before(concat(substring-after(.,';#'),';#'),';#')"
data.xml
http://www.blah.com/blah/blah3/blah.doc
$


Mit besten Gruessen / Best wishes,

Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt
Developer, XML Compiler, L3
Fixpack team lead
WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances
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