Re: [xsl] XPath 2.0: string to sequence of characters

Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath 2.0: string to sequence of characters
From: Owen Rees <owen.rees@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:47:06 +0000
--On Friday, February 02, 2007 17:05:20 +0100 Martin Honnen wrote:

With XPath 2.0, what is the easiest way to split a string into a sequence
of strings of length one e.g.
   "Kibology" into ("K", "i", "b", "o", "l", "o", "g", "y")
I came up with e.g.
    for $index in 1 to string-length("Kibology")
    return substring("Kibology", $index, 1)
but wonder whether there is a shorter/easier way.

I don't know if it counts as shorter/easier, but this does it:


for $c in string-to-codepoints('Kibology') return codepoints-to-string($c)

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Owen Rees
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK

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