RE: [xsl] Xslt 2 stripping out non-numbers

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2005-04-19 13:53 -0400, Jim Neff wrote:
> The characters to be removed could be anything, upper, lower, hyphens,
> spaces ... Anything NaN.
> ...
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:     Jim Neff <jneff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent:     Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:22:30 -0400
> > To:       <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Subject:  [xsl] Xslt 2 stripping out non-numbers
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I need to strip out non-numerical values from a string.
> >
> > Here is a sample input value:  TUV0062
> >
> > And what I want is :  0062  (or just 62)
> ...
> > What is the correct way to do this using XSLT 2?

Would an XSLT 1 compatible method be acceptable?

I hope the below helps.

. . . . . . . Ken

t:\ftemp>type neff.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                version="1.0">

<xsl:output method="text"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
   <xsl:variable name="target" select="'TUV0062'"/>

   <xsl:value-of select="number(
                          translate($target,
                           translate($target,'0123456789',''),''))"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
t:\ftemp>saxon neff.xsl neff.xsl
62
t:\ftemp>

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