RE: [xsl] Converting individual words in a string to nodes

Subject: RE: [xsl] Converting individual words in a string to nodes
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:25:46 +0100
In 2.0 it's simply

<NodeSet>
  <xsl:for-each select="tokenize(., '/')"/>
    <PlaceNode>
      <xsl:value-of select="."/>
    </PlaceNode>
  </xsl:for-each>
</NodeSet>

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Carr1 [mailto:CARRA@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 26 April 2007 13:16
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Converting individual words in a string to nodes
> 
> I am using XSLT 2.0 to transform a WordML document and have 
> run into a spot of trouble.
> 
> I have a / delimited string and need to create a node for 
> each word in the string.
> 
> 
> 
> WordML snippet:
> <w:p>
>    <w:r>
>       <w:t>UK/England/Yorkshire/Hull</w:t>
>    </w:r>
> </w:p>
> 
> needs to be output as:
> 
> <NodeSet>
>    <PlaceNode>UK</PlaceNode>
>    <PlaceNode>England</PlaceNode>
>    <PlaceNode>Yorkshire</PlaceNode>
>    <PlaceNode>Hull</PlaceNode>
> </NodeSet>
> 
> The number of words in the string is unlimited.
> 
> I can tokenize the string and count the number of words in 
> the string, but 
> I can't create a node for each word and it is really frustrating. 
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Regards
> Andy
> 
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