Re: [xsl] Help to construct a loop

[henry human <henry_human@xxxxxxxx>]

Actually this is a bpel (business process execution
language) process which I am working on.
Bpel itself is xml based and allows using xsl
functions. For e. in the bpel specification 2.0 there
is possible to build loops with for-each, while etc.

In my case my bpel process becomes this string from a
web service and I will to handle this string within
the bpel process f.i. in a while loop.
As I mentioned in the sample the string which the bpel
process becomes from the web service has a colon which
I think enables to inspect the string based on the
token and build the substrings. 

Unfortunately there is no a specific list or forum for
the bpel language specified issues. 



  <while name="lookForSubstrings">
  
<!this is what I dont know, how to build the
condition in xsl for a loop -->
            <condition> substring-before($myString,
':') </condition>
            
            
            <sequence name="sequence2">
                <if name="extractSubstrings">
                    
                    <assign name="SendOutputToClient"
>              
                                            
...........
                    </assign>  
                    <else>
                        <assign name="displayElse">   
          
                    ...........


I hope it makes the problem clearer!
henry


--- Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb:

> Hi Henry,
> 
> Without seeing your source and how your $myString is
> formed, this is 
> rather hard to answer. Nor have you told us what
> XSLT version you have. 
> In XSLT 1.0, dissecting a string is done using a
> recursive template 
> ("saving" to a variable is not possible in XSLT). In
> XSLT 2.0, 
> dissecting a string is much easier, i.e. by using
> tokenize(), replace() 
> or xsl:analyze-string. Some XSLT 1.0 processors
> however allow the  use 
> of the EXSLT extensions, see http://exslt.org for
> how to use them.
> 
> Note that XSLT is a declarative language which makes
> "traditional" 
> approaches (while loop, assigning to a variable) not
> possible. If the 
> string you've put into $myString comes from nodes
> (elements, attributes 
> etc), it is probably easier to construct the output
> you want during the 
> process, instead of after the $myString construction
> (in fact, 
> constructing how the output should look like is all
> you do with XSLT, in 
> general).
> 
> Cheers,
> -- Abel Braaksma
> 
> 
> henry human wrote:
> > Hi  
> > I will to build a loop (for-each or while, etc)
> >   I have a long string saved in a variable
> myString:
> >     myString= foo ffd : ppp ttt foo : 3mmm foo
> >
> >   In this sample there are three substrings
> separated
> > by a colon token
> >   How could it be done, looking over the myString
> in a
> > loop and f. i.
> >  save the substring in a variable named buf1 
> until
> > all three substrings
> >  has been read  ?
> >   I will be very glad for any hint
> >   Regards
> >   Henry
> >
> >
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