Do I need regular expressions..?

ypomonh · May 20th, 2007, 07:27 AM

I have a piece of XML:

Code:

<element>
   Blah blah $P{foo} blah blah blah $P{bar}...
</element>

and I want to search it for every occurence of "$P{X}" and get "X", eg. get something similar to:

Code:

<root>
   <el>foo</el>
   <el>bar</el>
   ....
</root>

Do I need regular expressions to handle that..?

joefawcett · May 20th, 2007, 07:32 AM

No, but using version XSLT 2.0 would be easier. In version 1.0 you can use substring-before and substring with a recursive template to grab all the required content. Search for an example of a string replace XSLT template which should give you a good basis from where to start.

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

ypomonh · May 20th, 2007, 05:09 PM

Great that did the job, thanks for the help!