RE: [xsl] select first word

["Scott Trenda" <Scott.Trenda@xxxxxxxx>]

If we don't care about preserving the commas, we could just translate them to
spaces to start with, and simply check for the space after that. Then it's not
dependent on a space being followed by a comma. Something like this:

<xsl:variable name="trans" select="translate(.,
'abcdehijklmnorstuvyz{|HIJKA@,', 'aaaaaeeeeiiiioooooEEEEAA ')" />
<xsl:choose>
	<xsl:when test="contains($trans, ' ')">
		<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($trans, ' ')" />
	</xsl:when>
	<xsl:otherwise>
		<xsl:value-of select="$trans" />
	</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>


~ Scott


-----Original Message-----
From: Abel Braaksma [mailto:abel.online@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:12 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] select first word

Florent Georges wrote:
> Abel Braaksma wrote:
>
>
>> <xsl:value-of select="
>>         translate(
>>            substring-before(
>>                substring-before(.,' '), ', '),
>>         $from, $to)" />
>>
>
>   If I am right (if I remember correctly) the input doesn't always have
> space or comma.  So I would use the following instead (or the result
> could be empty):
>
>     translate(replace(., '([^, ]+).*', '$1'), $from, $to)

Thanks for pointing that out.
Yes, you are right about the input. But the OP has, I believe (from
observation), only XSLT 1.0 and replace() is introduced as per XSLT 2.0.

The substring-before with the comma can be removed: if there's a comma
it is followed by a space. Just add the comma to the translate function
at the end, then it will be removed.

For the rest I'd probably choose something like this:

<!-- include comma, which is not matched, thus it will be deleted -->
<xsl:variable name="from" select="'abcdehijklmnorstuvyz{|HIJKA@,'" />
<xsl:variable name="to" select="'aaaaaeeeeiiiioooooEEEEAA'" />

<!-- with space -->
<xsl:template match="le[contains(., ' ')]">
    <xsl:value-of select="translate(substring-before(., ' '), $from,
$to)" />
</xsl:template>

<!-- without space -->
<xsl:template match="le">
    <xsl:value-of select="translate(., $from, $to)" />
</xsl:template>

The second one is the more generic one and will be called by the
processor if there's no space in the content of the <le> element.

HTH,

Cheers,
-- Abel Braaksma