Re: [xsl] Remove a number at the beginning of some text

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Graeme,

At 10:18 AM 1/7/2009, you wrote:
> I wanting to remove a number in some text e.g.
>
> < root>
> < p>1.3 Heading < / p>
> < root>
>
> Should be:
>
> < root>
> < p>Heading < / p>
> < root>

This is easier in XSLT 2.0, which supports regular expressions.

But solutions are possible even in 1.0.

A question: will the number ever be inside markup, as in 
<p><i>1.4</i> Heading</p> or <p><i>1.4 Heading</i></p>? If so, it's trickier.

More questions: does whitespace need to be preserved? will whitespace 
after the number ever be more than (other than) a single space? Will 
there ever be whitespace before the number?

Another question: is it fair to define a "number" for these purposes 
a string of characters that includes only the Arabic numerals 0-9 and 
periods? What about "1.0.1": is that a number? What about "1,000,000"? "MMIX"?

In any case, the problem is solvable but this is the sort of thing 
one needs to know (especially whether you can use XSLT 2.0).

Cheers,
Wendell



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