RE: [xsl] Refactoring parsing code with XSLT 2.0

["Aron Bock" <aronbock@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Micah, you could probably use a regular expression pattern with submatches 
to extract the various parts.  You'll want to verify this (the regex support 
in 2.0, that is) , since I'm still getting my ... toes ... wet with *1.0*

Regards,

--A

> From: Micah Dubinko <micah@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Refactoring parsing code with XSLT 2.0
> Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 19:31:18 -0700
>
> I know how I would do this in XSLT 1.0, and it's not very pretty. Is there 
> an elegant way in XPath/XSLT 2.0 to do this?
>
> I have a variable with a string value like "3.48in" or "1pt" or "4" or 
> "#123456" etc. Of the values that contain units, the first 2 of this 
> particular list, I want to separate out the value from the units. I can 
> include a list of possible unit values, say ("in", "cm", "pt", "em", "px") 
> or whatever.

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