Tab in XSLT in 1.0 only

pradeepn · May 8th, 2007, 07:24 AM

Help needed to solve the following in xslt 1.0 only

Input xml
<p>
My simple \t\t text\t with\t tab
</p>

out put XML
<p>
<text>
Mysimple<tab><tab>text<tab>with<tab>tab
<text>

I need a logic to convert input to out put xml.
thanks in advance

mhkay · May 8th, 2007, 07:33 AM

This kind of thing is very easy in XSLT 2.0 using xsl:analyze-string.

To do it in XSLT 1.0 you need to write a recursive template. Supply the string as a parameter to the template. If the string is empty, exit. If the first two characters are "\t", output a <tab/> element, otherwise output the first character. Then call the template recursively passing the rest of the string as the parameter value.

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

pradeepn · May 8th, 2007, 07:42 AM

I tried with recursive, i don't know how to add node in recursive
can you post the complete template

mhkay · May 8th, 2007, 08:03 AM

Please try to write it yourself. If you can't get it to work, show us your code and I can see where you went wrong. You can't learn by asking other people to do the work.

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

tripecac · May 8th, 2007, 06:35 PM

pradeepn - You can also use substring-before(). Here's a template which replaces an arbitrary string with another. You can use it as a starting point:

Code:

<xsl:template name="replace">
  <xsl:param name="string" />
  <xsl:param name="oldSub" />
  <xsl:param name="newSub" />
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="contains($string,$oldSub)">
      <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($string, $oldSub)" />
      <xsl:value-of select="$newSub" />
      <xsl:call-template name="replace">
        <xsl:with-param name="string" select="substring-after($string, $oldSub)" />
        <xsl:with-param name="oldSub" select="$oldSub" />
        <xsl:with-param name="newSub" select="$newSub" />
      </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      <xsl:value-of select="$string" />
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>