Re: [xsl] substring function not handling hyphens in variables correctly

Subject: Re: [xsl] substring function not handling hyphens in variables correctly
From: David_Marston@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:25:38 -0400
>I have just upgraded from Xalan 1.0.0 to Xalan 1.3.
>The following snippets no longer function correctly:

>select="concat(substring($user,1,3),substring($user,5,6),...)"

Somewhere back in time, the working group decided that the third
argument to substring() should be a length, not a character
position. So the change was necessary to make substring conform
to the XPath 1.0 specs.
.................David Marston

PS: Tony's solution should work much better.


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