RE: [xsl] regex help, please

Subject: RE: [xsl] regex help, please
From: "Houghton,Andrew" <houghtoa@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:19:03 -0500
> From: Brian Newman [mailto:brian.newman@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 06:08 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] regex help, please
>
> I've got a pipe delimited list of data which I'd like to turn into an
> Xml doc for further processing.
>
> So, I use code something like
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
> xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";
> xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
> xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions";>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <xsl:analyze-string regex="doctext" select='|'>
> <xsl:matching-substring></xsl:matching-substring>
> <xsl:non-matching-substring><item><xsl:value-of
> select="."/></item></xsl:non-matching-substring>
> </xsl:analyze-string>
> <xsl:copy>
> 	<xsl:value-of select="$doctext/node()"/>
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> Which doesn't work - it doesn't recognize the pipe as a regex.
> What should that regex be?
> I've also tried /| and [|].

Looks like you have the regex and select attribute values reversed.

Try regex="[|]" select="$doctext"


Andy.

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