RE: [xsl] regular expression in replace()

[UlyLee <ulyleeka@xxxxxxxxx>]

oooppss... i think this is a much shorter solution :D

o well at least i tried :D

thanks again guys!

--- Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Schema Part 2 says:
> 
> A metacharacter is either ., \, ?, *, +, {, } (, ),
> [ or ]. These characters
> have special meanings in .regular expression.s, but
> can be escaped to form
> .atom.s that denote the sets of strings containing
> only themselves, i.e., an
> escaped .metacharacter. behaves like a .normal
> character..
> 
> and XPath adds ^ and $ to the list.
> 
> So you can turn your replacement string into a regex
> using
> 
> replace($in, "[.\\?*+{}()\[\]^$]", "\\$0")
> 
> Note that in both the regex and the replacement
> string, \ is represented as
> \\.
> 
> Not tested.
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/ 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: UlyLee [mailto:ulyleeka@xxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 18 October 2005 12:52
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [xsl] regular expression in replace()
> > 
> > I have a string: "Lucie et Suz. Beauvais Suzanne"
> and
> > i want to replace "Suz." with "Suzanne".
> > 
> > but when i use replace("Lucie et Suz. Beauvais
> > Suzanne","Suz.","Suzanne") it gives me "Lucie et
> > Suzanne Beauvais Suzannenne", i figured that this
> is
> > because "." is treated as a regular expression
> thats
> > why it replaced "Suza" with "Suzanne". I know i
> need
> > to escape the "." to  "\." but what if my
> > replace-pattern contains other regex characters
> like
> > "?" "*" "+"?
> > 
> > Michael Kay suggested that i first make my
> replacement
> > string to regelar expression or create a replace
> > function that uses substring-before() and
> contains().
> > How am i to go around this? I'm just starting out
> in
> > XSL and the new features of XSLT 2.0 sometime
> confuses
> > me.
> > 
> > My first alternative was to use
> replace($sourceStr,
> > ".", "\.") but it says "\." is an invalid
> replacement string.
> > 
> > 
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