Hi,
can any one help in splitting this string

  <par >
    <picture>
      <par >
        <run>&lt;img src= imgone onClick=OpenImageFile( D:\Corp_Annc_Attachment\Images\red.gif )&gt;&lt;/img&gt;</run>
      </par>
    </picture>
  </par>

this is my xml
i need to xsl transformation ,i need to write an xsl using href and i will show the imgone alone and i need to store D:\Corp_Annc_Attachment\Images\red.gif in a seperate string,so that on clicking the img i will open this gif.

thanks in advance..

It's best not to structure your source documents this way: markup in nested elements should not be escaped. But the damage is done, and the quick way out might be output the image using

<xsl:value-of select="run" disable-output-escaping="yes"/>

The trouble with this is that it doesn't work in all environments (notably Firefox). That's not a bug in Firefox, it's an intrinsic limitation of disable-output-escaping - it's an instruction to the serializer to output text as-is, without escaping, and it has no effect in an environment where the output isn't sent to a serializer.

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

kay Thanks for the reply
i have used the same one but my question is how to use regular expression for

run>&lt;img src= imgone onClick=OpenImageFile( D:\Corp_Annc_Attachment\Images\red.gif )&gt;&lt;/img&gt;</run>

this run tag and store D:\Corp_Annc_Attachment\Images\red.gif in a variable.

Writing a regular expression that processes this input, and only this input, is trivial (in fact, you don't even need to look at the input!). What you really want, I'm sure, is to be able to process a range of inputs, and I can't guess what that range of inputs might be from just one example. The key to writing a regular expression is to describe the set of all possible inputs.

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

Hi kay

i have done using substring functions

<xsl:variable name="pathy" select="substring-before(substring-after(picture/par/run,'OpenImageFile('), ')') "/>

<a href="{$pathy}"> <xsl:value-of select="picture/par/run" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
</a>

i got the required result..
Thanks for helping