Re: [xsl] how to split word into sequence of letters

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> That rather depends on the time complexity of substring().
>
> Saxon should evaluate substring() in constant time once it has established
> that the string contains no surrogate pairs, which is only done once for a
> given string.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica


This is exactly what I meant by "in the absence of a good optimizer"
-- there certainly are XSLT processor that have optimal implementation
for substring().

Should we assume that every XSLT processor is that smart? I believe -- not.

Of course, measurements will definitely show what is the case with a
specific XSLT processor. The results could also be possibly different
for substring() with a string literal as its first argument and when
the first argument is the string value of a node (calculated).

Cheers,
Dimitre

>
>
>
> On 18/08/2012 04:33, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Mukul Gandhi <gandhi.mukul@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Robby,
>>>      Here's another variant of the solution,
>>>
>>> for $x in 1 to string-length($stringVal) return substring($stringVal, $x,
>>> 1)
>>>
>>> But the solution with string-to-codepoints(..) etc is equally good.
>>
>>
>> The solution given by Michael Kay:
>>
>>      for $c in string-to-codepoints($s) return codepoints-to-string($c)
>>
>> can be much more efficient (linear time complexity) than the above
>> expression that calculates substring N times. (O(N^2) in the absence
>> of a good optimizer).
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dimitre.
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Robby Pelssers <Robby.Pelssers@xxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> Probably the stupidest question since a while but what would be the
>>>> preferred way to split a word into a sequence of letters  ;-)
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Robby
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Mukul Gandhi
>



-- 
Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
---------------------------------------
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
---------------------------------------
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk
-------------------------------------
Never fight an inanimate object
-------------------------------------
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the
biggest mistake of all
------------------------------------
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
-------------------------------------
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what
you're doing is work or play
-------------------------------------
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
-------------------------------------
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.