transform element contents

advisor · September 15th, 2003, 12:02 PM

i'm stuck at my xslt-stylesheet, trying to get and partly change the contents of an element - it looks like this:

<ATTRIBUTE>ITEM: "Winword"param:"C:\\Documents and Settings\\clemens\\Desktop\\Clemens XML"</ATTRIBUTE>

all i want is to draw the part after C: and before the final ", and change the dobbelslashes to single ones.
is there any combined functions that could make that possible ?

armmarti · September 16th, 2003, 12:12 AM

You can use saxon:tokenize extension function; if you're using another XSLT processor, you can write simple template "replace" which replaces occurences of string1 with string2 in some string. I your processor isn't Saxon and you have problems with writing that template, let me know.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon"
exclude-result-prefixes="saxon"
extension-element-prefixes="saxon">
    <xsl:template match="ATTRIBUTE">
        <xsl:copy>
            <xsl:for-each select="saxon:tokenize(concat(' ', substring-before(substring-after(., 'C:'), '&quot;'), ' '), '\\')">
                <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)"/>
                <xsl:if test="position() != last()">
                    <xsl:text>\</xsl:text>
                </xsl:if>
            </xsl:for-each>    
        </xsl:copy>
    </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Regards,
Armen