Re: [xsl] another beginner question - strip directory info from variable

["Martin Honnen martin.honnen@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 14.10.2018 um 03:49 schrieb Dave Lang emaildavelang@xxxxxxxxx:
> Hi again everyone - back with another beginner question.
>
> I'm working in Oxygen and am using Saxon.
>
> I'm searching through a bunch of xml files in search of jpg names. I'm 
> creating variables as follows:
>
> <xsl:variable name="allxml" 
> select="collection('..//xml/?select=*.xml;recurse=yes')"/>
> <xsl:variable name="jpgs" select="$allxml//element/@n"/>
>
> $jpgs looks like:
>
> dir1/jpg001.jpg dir1/jpg002.jpg dir1/jpg003.jpg
>
> etc.
>
> I want to strip away the dir info, but am having a hard time. I've 
> tried using tokenize and substring-after but both return similar errors.
>
> "A sequence of more than one item is not allowed as the first argument 
> of fn:tokenize() ("dir1/jpg001.jpg", "dir1/jpg002.jpg")."

The variable jpgs is a sequence of attribute nodes, if you want to apply 
a function to each item in the sequence of nodes you can use

B B B  $jpgs/tokenize(., '/')[last()]

and get a sequence of strings.

In XSLT 3 with XPath 3 you can also use

B  $jpgs!tokenize(., '/')[last()]