Re: [xsl] Replacing portion of element name

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eddie,

Can you articulate a logical rule whereby you know that the first 
underscore in the string "commander_s_ tracked_station_list" should be 
converted to an apostrophe, while the others should be converted to spaces? 
Your rule should be sufficiently general to work in all your cases.

Once you have articulated the logic you want to apply, it is reasonable to 
consider what code you need to implement it. Without understanding the 
logic, however, any code you write will work only by accident, if at all.

(And BTW, your example as provided isn't XML, so an XSLT processor isn't 
going to be able to process it at all, without help. I guess your actual 
element name doesn't have a space in it?)

Cheers,
Wendell

At 01:51 PM 11/24/2003, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have an element name <commander_s_ tracked_station_list>, among others,
> that needs to be transformed to a string with an apostrophe followed by an
> s, i.e. "commander's tracked...".  How can I get the 's without using
> external functions?  Is this possible with XSLT/XPATH 1.0?  I can easily
> convert the underscores to a non-breaking space using the translate
> function, but I have not been able to crack the code to make the apostrophe
> appear in the appropriate place.  Any suggestions would be greatly
> appreciated.


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