Re: [xsl] efficiently extracting a capture group from analyze-string()

["Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 8:29 AM Chris Papademetrious
christopher.papademetrious@xxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
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> Given some filename string like
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>   <xsl:variable name="file" select="'path/my-sometype.xml'"/>
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> Ibd like to extract the bmy-(\w+)b part of the filename using
> analyze-string(). So far I have
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Can the "path" part of the filename also contain the string "my-", and if
so, then would you provide a more precise definition of the wanted result?


Thanks,
Dimitre



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>   <xsl:variable name="my-file-type" select="data(analyze-string($file,
> 'my-(\w+)')//fn:group[1])"/>
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> which works by extracting the <group> descendant from the
> <analyze-string-result> tree, then converting it to text. Is there a more
> concise way to do this?
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> I had to define
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>   xmlns:fn=http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions
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> in my stylesheet for fn:group to match, and Ibm not sure if therebs a
> better way to do that too.
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> Thanks!
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>    - Chris
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