Re: [xsl] Text based stage play scripts to XML

[Jacobus Reyneke <jacobusreyneke@xxxxxxxxx>]

Solved, thank you all!

For the benefit of someone searching the forum:

Useful as part of solution for up-marking (because more than one
pattern adds another contextual dimension, thereby avoiding false
true's). For similar problem and suggestions see
http://www.biglist.com/lists/lists.mulberrytech.com/xsl-list/archives/201101/msg00113.html

Given:
The sound a dog makes is woof and the sound a cat makes is bark.

regex="(the sound)(.*)(makes)"

gives you "a dog" and "a cat" as regex-group(2)

-- Thanks David

Using this:
<xsl:variable name="regex" as="xs:string">(sound)(.*?)(makes)</xsl:variable>
<xsl:analyze-string select="." regex="{$regex}">
 <xsl:matching-substring>
       <xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)"/>
       <wrapped><xsl:value-of select="regex-group(2)"/></wrapped>
   <xsl:value-of select="regex-group(3)"/>
 </xsl:matching-substring>
 <xsl:non-matching-substring>
       <xsl:value-of select="."/>
 </xsl:non-matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>

Gives you:
The sound<wrapped> a dog </wrapped>makes is woof and the
sound<wrapped> a cat </wrapped>makes is bark.

-- Thanks Andrew and David

Why is this useful?

Because now you can change:
CAPTAIN:  Was that the sound of cannon fire?

Into:
<actor name="CAPTAIN">
    <dialogue-line>
         Was that the sound of cannon fire?
     <dialogue-line>
</actor>

... with minimum guessing