Re: [xsl] translate array delimiters in XSLT

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jay,

At 12:18 PM 3/18/2005, you wrote:
> I was thinking that, too, Wendell, but some quick testing revealed a
> problem. Because translate substitutes only one character, the semi-colon
> is replaced with a comma but no space. To get a space after each comma
> requires a different approach. I suppose a recursive template that uses
> substring functions would be the 1.0 solution. I think the 2.0 solution
> would be to tokenize the input string and then reassemble with a for-each
> on the tokens, adding the comma and space along the way.

Oh, I didn't notice the space! Good catch -- yes, that's somewhat harder.

XSLT 2.0 is much better at this sort of thing.

Cheers,
Wendell


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