RE: [xsl] Xslt 2 stripping out non-numbers

Subject: RE: [xsl] Xslt 2 stripping out non-numbers
From: cknell@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:21:57 -0400
Will the characters to be removed always be upper-case letters?
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Charles Knell
cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email



-----Original Message-----
From:     Jim Neff <jneff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Tue, 19 Apr 2005 13:22:30 -0400
To:       <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject:  [xsl] Xslt 2 stripping out non-numbers

Greetings,

I need to strip out non-numerical values from a string.  

Here is a sample input value:  TUV0062

And what I want is :  0062  (or just 62)

Here's what I've tried so far:

for $i in tokenize(state_license_number, '\.') return xs:string( if
(string(number(.)) = 'NaN') then '' else $i)

But this does not work.  I get an empty string as a result

If I do this:

for $i in tokenize(state_license_number, '\.') return xs:string($i)

I get the whole string back so I know my "for" statement is returning
something.

What is the correct way to do this using XSLT 2?

Thanks,
Jim

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