Re: [xsl] substring-before doesn't copy node

[George Cristian Bina <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Marco,

Most probably the variable does not contain the text you think it 
contains. See below an example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; 
version="1.0">
  <xsl:output indent="yes"/>
  <xsl:template match="/">
    <xsl:variable 
name="test">http://dominio.com/&lt;b&gt;pippo&lt;/b&gt;/pluto.html</xsl:variable>
    <result><xsl:value-of select="substring-before($test, 
'pluto')"/></result>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


Gives
<result>http://dominio.com/&lt;b&gt;pippo&lt;/b&gt;/</result>

Test with that and see if you get different results.

Best Regards,
George
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Marco wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm writing a recursive template and I have some problems with 
> subtring-before.
> I'm trying to write a words highlighter.
> In my template if my text contains the word I'm looking for, I write:
>
> <xsl:variable name="before" select="substring-before($test-text, .)" />
> <xsl:variable name="after" select="substring-after($test-text, .)"/>
> <xsl:variable name="real-before" select="substring($text, 1, 
> string-length($before))"/>
> <xsl:variable name="real-after" select="substring($text, 
> string-length($before) + string-length(.) + 1)"/>
>
> The problem is that my test-text contains for example 
> http://dominio.com/&lt;b&gt;pippo&lt;/b&gt;/pluto.html and I'm looking 
> for pluto, the before string is http://dominio.com/pippo/. It seems that 
> substring-before deletes my tag <b></b>. I suppose that the problem is 
> in the substring-after too.
> I tried to write:
> <xsl:variable name="before"><xsl:copy-of 
> select="substring-before($test-text, .)" /></xsl:variable>
> but the problem remains.
> How could I solve my problem?
> Best regards
> Marco