RE: [xsl] Pattern Matching a sting value

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

In this specific example I would think you could use

substring-before(
    substring-after($x, 'font-family'),
    ";")

But of course what you really need is the regex handling offered by XSLT
2.0.

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> scott gabelhart
> Sent: 06 February 2004 02:06
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] Pattern Matching a sting value
> 
> 
> Jim Fuller wrote:
> 
> >>[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> >>scott gabelhart
> >>Sent: 06 February 2004 01:14
> >>To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >>Subject: [xsl] Pattern Matching a sting value
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >  
> >
> >>How in XSLT 1.0 do you interogate a specific portion of a string?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>$stg = "font:...;font-family:Arial;color:#FFFFF;...."
> >>
> >>I am only interested in the portion of this string that
> >>contains Arial.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Not sure what interested means, if you want to test for the 
> existance 
> >use the boolean contains() function;
> >
> >	contains($stg,'Arial') would return true
> >
> >Otherwise use the following string based functions
> >
> >	string substring-before(string, string)
> >	string substring-after(string, string)
> >	string substring(string, number, number?)
> >	string concat(string, string, string*)
> >	number string-length(string?)
> >
> >You might need these as well;
> >
> >	string normalize-space(string?)
> >	string translate(string, string, string)
> >
> >Check out here for specific techniques;
> >
> >http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N7240.html
> >
> >Otherwise if you want something with regular expressions or more 
> >advanced string handling like replacing text check out www.exslt.org.
> >
> >
> >Gl, Jim Fuller
> >
> >
> > XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> Jim,
> 
> specifically I have a attribute that contains many values 
> that I have to 
> break apart and set to individual attribute values so
> a string that contains 
> "color:#FFFFF;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;" I would need to 
> select only the value begining after the : in font-family and ending 
> with;before font-weight.
> 
> Do any of the string function above support the functionality I am 
> looking for? Thanks for the tip on the contains function. 
> Already using 
> that function to determine if a attribute string value contains 
> font-family in the first place.
> 
> - Scott
> 
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