Re: Rephrasing the problem [was Re: [xsl] Second try: Search and replace many strings that may not be present in target

[Greg Faron <gfaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Zack,

  I figured it out just after sending...  I was calling substring-before() 
and substring-after(), both of which convert a node to a string.  An 
alternate (and more successful) way of doing what you want is to use d-o-e 
and CDATA sections, though it makes many XSLT'ers blood boil.  Remember 
that d-o-e is not a mandatory option for an XSLT engine.

  <xsl:template name="linkify">
    <xsl:param name="contents" select="/.."/>
    <xsl:param name="quote-names" select="/.."/>
    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="not($quote-names)">
        <xsl:value-of select="$contents" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:when test="contains($contents, $quote-names[1]/@who)">
        <xsl:call-template name="linkify">
          <xsl:with-param name="contents">
            <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($contents, 
$quote-names[1]/@who)" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
            <xsl:value-of select="$quote-names[1]/@who"/>
            <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[ [<a 
href="people/]]></xsl:text>
            <xsl:value-of select="translate($quote-names[1]/@who, ' ', '_')"/>
            <xsl:text 
disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[.html">*</a>]]]></xsl:text>
            <xsl:value-of select="substring-after($contents, 
$quote-names[1]/@who)" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
          </xsl:with-param>
          <xsl:with-param name="quote-names" 
select="$quote-names[position() > 1]"/>
        </xsl:call-template>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:call-template name="linkify">
          <xsl:with-param name="contents" select="$contents"/>
          <xsl:with-param name="quote-names" 
select="$quote-names[position() > 1]"/>
        </xsl:call-template>
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:template>

Greg Faron
Integre Technical Publishing Co.



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