RE: [xsl] Selecting the first item from a tokenized string

[Sanjukta Mitra <sanmit27@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks a lot, Michael. Appreciate it.

Sanjukta

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

> Just use exp[1].
> 
> The item-at() function was removed many drafts ago
> because it was redundant:
> you can get the Nth item in a sequence using SEQ[N].
> In the rare cases where
> that's inconvenient because it changes the
> evaluation context, you can use
> subsequence(SEQ, N, 1).
> 
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/ 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sanjukta Mitra [mailto:sanmit27@xxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: 12 January 2006 20:24
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [xsl] Selecting the first item from a
> tokenized string
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am trying to select the first item from a
> tokenized
> > string. I was trying to use the item-at()
> function.But
> > this seems to have been removed from Saxon and
> > possibly also from XSLT 2 . Is there another
> function
> > I could use to do this? Would really appreciate
> any
> > help.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Sanjukta
> > 
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