Re: [xsl] csv to xml converter bug

["Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/10/07, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I gave up dirty hacks long ago  (and as you've said yourself,
> > that was a dirty hack).
>
> I wash my hacks in Persil.

Daz, surely.  (is there such a thing as a "clean hack"?)

> Haven't worked out the detail, but it seems to me that if you add a trailing
> comma at the end of the string, you can then do
>
> <xsl:analyze-string select="concat($in, ',')" regex='("[^"]*"|[^,]*),'>
>   <xsl:matching-substring>
>     <token><xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)"/></token>
>   </xsl:matching-substring>
> </xsl:analyze-string>

Hmm, seems to work.

> Doesn't strip the quotes off, but that part's easy.

It is, especially as Abel wrote it for me :)

I'll try it out and then write it up, thanks!

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