Hi all,

Would it be possible to gain a little guidance on this problem i have.

Basically i have a node that contains a URL. I basically want to modify the URL so it automatically adds two further strings. for example user types in www.google.com. Then i want the xslt to add strings onto it automatically, like /search for example. resulting in the URL to be www.google.com/search?

can anyone help?

Thanks in advance

I can't see why you're finding this difficult. You just need something like

<xsl:template match="url">
  <xsl:value-of select="concat(.,'/search')"/>
</xsl:template>

Mind you, building URLs by concatenating strings has many pitfalls if you're going to make it robust.

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

Would it be more difficult like this;

www.google.com/images/image.jpg

*i want to change it through xslt by doing this

www.google.com/images/_t/image_jpg.jpg?

i basically want to add a subdomain to the route and a simple extention to the name of the image file?

its all because of thumb nails you see

could you please help on this final stage of my project?

many thanks again

XSLT 1.0 provides a fairly limited range of operators for string manipulation: concat(), substring(), substring-before(), and a few others. But you can do surprisingly complex things if you learn how to write recursive templates. XSLT 2.0 has a much richer repertoire including full regular expressions - matches(), tokenize(), and replace().

If you have a specific problem achieving a specific transformation with these functions then I can help you. However, you must first specify the problem precisely, and you then need to make your best efforts to solve it for yourself. I'm not going to write the code for you.

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