RE: [xsl] string processing

["Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> Hi, 
> I'm trying to work out how to tokenizer two separate strings 
> and then compare their tokens using xslt.  Does anyone have a 
> solution to this problem?  It seems reasonably straight 
> forward in java but not so with xslt. Also it seems strange 
> that the name() function only returns the first node in the 
> node set.  If I am selecting a particular named group of 
> elements within an xml document that contain different 
> elements and I don't know what this elements are in advance 
> is there any way of returning all their names as a string?

The answer to both problems is to use recursive templates. For general
iterative processing of node-sets or tokens in strings in XSLT 1.0, you
have to use recursion. Once you master recursion, neither of these
problems is at all difficult.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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