RE: [xsl] Re: How to match a element + part of an immediate text sibling?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:59 AM 1/14/2004, Mike wrote:
> ...
> Secondly, there is nothing in XSLT 1.0 that allows you to split a string
> into its component words. You can do it yourself using a recursive
> template (there are examples in my book XSLT Programmers Reference), or
> you can use a vendor- or third-party extension function xx:tokenize().

This may seem obvious and gratuitous (for which I apologize), but I hasten 
to add that this is only a *particular* notion of what a "word" is (a 
substring delimited by white space), which may not be robust enough for all 
purposes. For example, if your input reads

<p> the quick <em>brown</em> fox, ears up, jumps </p>

you may want your output to read not

<p> the <em>quick brown fox,</em> ears up, jumps </p>

but

<p> the <em>quick brown fox</em>, ears up, jumps </p>

which will require a more sophisticated definition of the concept of a 
"word", and which will not be so tractable using basic substringing around 
whitespace (or a simple tokenize function either, FTM).

This kind of thing is not impossible to work around in most real-world 
cases, but since XSLT 1.0 is not designed for up-conversion, it can get 
pretty hairy.

But it all depends on the actual processing requirements for the data. 
Caveat lector.

Cheers,
Wendell


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