Re: [xsl] Getting text from string

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/11/2011 17:18, Stan Mikita wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a directory path value and i want to grab the text "filename"
> to the right of the last "/". I've tried using the below without any
> luck. Is there a reverse search where you can tell it to search from
> the right up to the first occurence of a "/"? Value can be many
> directories deep.
>
> path = "dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4/filename"
>
> xsl:variable name="dirPath" select="substring-before(@path,'/')"/
>
> xsl:variable name="dirPath" select="substring-after(@path,'/')"/
In XSLT 2.0 you can do select="tokenize(@path, '/')[last()]".

In XSLT 1.0 it needs a recursive template: conceptually

getLast(X) -> if (contains(X, '/') then getLast(substring-after(X, '/')) 
else X

Michael Kay
Saxonica