Re: [xsl] Creating a sequence from DSV strings

[Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>]

James Abley wrote:

> I am trying to pass in a DSV string parameter; e.g. "1234,356,6576" to
> my stylesheet processing. The string may contain zero, one or many
> members.
>
> I'm trying to create a sequence using this parameter.

Isn't
  tokenize("1234,356,6576", ",")
all you need.

> I then want to check to see whether an attribute in my source document
> is contained within that sequence and do different processing based on
> the result.
>
> I'm struggling converting the string into a sequence.
>
> I have these globals in my stylesheet:
>
> 	<!-- CSV list of article IDs which can be linked to -->
> 	<xsl:param name="article_ids" as="xs:string*" select="'392795'" />
>
> 	<xsl:variable name="article_id_list">
> 	    <xsl:analyze-string select="$article_ids" regex='([0-9]+)'>
>             <xsl:matching-substring>
>                 <xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)"/>
>             </xsl:matching-substring>
>             </xsl:analyze-string>
> 	</xsl:variable>

        <xsl:variable name="article_id_list" as="xs:string*" 
select="tokenize($article_ids, ',')"/>

> I have the following function intended to operate on the sequence.
>
>     <!--
>         XPath function which returns true if the sequence contains the
> candidate item, otherwise false.

You don't need a function simply check
   $article_id_list = $candidate-string




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