RE: [xsl] Searching for specific character in string and outputting first 4 digits that follow

["Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I am trying to figure out how to search for the 2nd instance 
> of a character in a string and then output only the first 4 
> digits that follow this character. For the PubDate element, I 
> want to find the 2nd instance of the back slash ("/") and 
> then output the 4-digit year that follows this back slash. 

Actually that's a forwards slash.

In 
> the following example, I want to output "2008'.
> 
>    <PubDate>5/12/2008 3:13:14 PM</PubDate>
> 

In XSLT 2.0

replace(PubDate, '^[0-9]*/[0-9]*/([0-9]*).*$', $1)

In XSLT 1.0 (or 2.0)

substring(substring-after(substring-after(PubDate, '/'), '/'), 1, 4)

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