Re: [xsl] Inverting names with Jr and Sr considered

Subject: Re: [xsl] Inverting names with Jr and Sr considered
From: "Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex" <gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 01:21:53 +0100
Hi Mark,

I first tried this regex: ((\w+\s+)+)(\w+)(\s+[JS]r)?

But its inherent greediness would always put [JS]r in the (\w+) group, considering it as the last name.

So maybe split this up into two analyze-string passes (or replacements, donbt necessarily need to use analyze-string):

      <xsl:analyze-string select="." regex="\s+([JS]r)\s*$">
        <xsl:matching-substring>
          <xsl:text> (</xsl:text>
          <xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)"/>
          <xsl:text>)</xsl:text>
        </xsl:matching-substring>
        <xsl:non-matching-substring>
          <xsl:analyze-string select="." regex="(.+?)\s+(\w+)\s*$">
            <xsl:matching-substring>
              <xsl:value-of select="regex-group(2)"/>
              <xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
              <xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)"/>
            </xsl:matching-substring>
          </xsl:analyze-string>
        </xsl:non-matching-substring>
      </xsl:analyze-string>

How do you intend to deal with multiple surname components? The way your examples are structured, only multiple first names may occur, while the last name is always expected to match \w+ (no spaces in between).

Gerrit

On 2012-11-06 00:45, Mark wrote:
This must have been done many times, so can some one show me where to
find the answer?

I have a series of personal names in natural order that I need to
invert. The surname is always last except when followed by bJrb, or bSrb
(either of which may not be present). I want to represent:

J Allen Rogers b> Rogers, J Allen
Bill T Wilson Jr b> Wilson, Bill T (Jr)
A B Brown b> Brown, A B
John Victor Case Sr b> Case, John Victor (Sr)

and so on. There may be a single space or multiple spaces between some
the elements of the name.

It looks like <xsl:analyze-string> will do this, but I do not know how
to write regex.

Thanks,
Mark


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