Re: [xsl] XPath (regex?) question about $& in an XSLT stylesheet

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2008-08-18 15:46 -0700, Mark Wilson wrote:
> I have an element
> <Person>Benes (senior), Frances</Person>.
>
> I can remove the '(senior)' from the data using
> <xsl:value-of select="replace(., '\([a-zA-Z]+\)', ' ' )"/>
>
> which gives me
> <Person>Benes , Frances</Person>
> but I want just the opposite:
> <Person>(senior)</Person>

You can use regular expression groups in XSLT using unescaped 
parentheses.  I hope the example below helps where I wrap the text 
before, in, and after as three groups.  Creating the third group is 
unnecessary, but I left it in for completeness.  You might need 
something more creative based on what you allow in your input.

. . . . . . . . . . Ken

t:\ftemp>type wilson.xml
<Person>Benes (senior), Frances</Person>

t:\ftemp>type wilson.xsl
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
                version="2.0">

<xsl:template match="*">
  <xsl:element name="{name(.)}" namespace="{namespace-uri(.)}">
    <xsl:value-of select="replace(., '(.*)(\([a-zA-Z]+\))(.*)', '$2' )"/>
  </xsl:element>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
t:\ftemp>xslt2 wilson.xml wilson.xsl con
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Person>(senior)</Person>
t:\ftemp>



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