tokenize() is an XPath/XSLT 2.0 function, if it's not available then this is because you are running an XSLT 1.0 processor.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

You're getting some bad advice here, I'm afraid.

Don't try writing "\" as "\\" in XSLT or XPath. Just because C and Java require a backslash to be escaped doesn't mean that other languages do.



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

hi mhkay!

In I am using a forward slash then I don't use double slashes(\\). But if I am using backward slash, I have to use "\\" otherwise saxon8 throws the error. If any correction? please replay in next thread.

In XSLT and XPath, "\" does not need to be escaped.

Of course, if you embed XSLT or XPath code as string literals within a language such as C or Java or JavaScript where backslahes need to be escaped, then you need to respect the conventions for writing string literals in those languages, just as you have to respect the XML escape conventions for characters such as & and < when you embed Javascript code within XSLT.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Sorry, I'm responding too hastily here. I was looking at

xsl:variable select="'c:\\test\\out.txt'"/>

This sets the variable to a string containing 17 characters. \\ represents two backslashes, not one. It's a valid string, but it's not the string c:\test\out.txt.

But in the next line,

<xsl:value-of select="tokenize($t, '\\')[last()]"/>

the second argument of tokenize is the string '\\', which is correct, because this argument is a regular expression, and the rules for regular expressions use "\" as an escape character.

However, it won't help the person who was trying to get an XSLT 1.0 processor to recognize the tokenize() function...



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference