Hello all!

I need to read a string because I need to know some specific words.
For exampel my string looks like this in xml:
[...]
<text>The final date for the presentation is 03.04.2013 and the exam is on 10.05.2013.</text>
[...]

I need in my XSL-doc both dates and don't know how to read the XML-doc.
Can anybody help me please?
Unfourtunaly there is no other option to write the dates e.g. into a seperate field.
Also the lenght of the text or the position can change because every teacher writes like he wants.

Best regards, Anna

If "every teacher writes what they want" then you have no chance. You've no way of detecting "Ides of March" as a date, and you've no way of knowing whether 3/4/2013 is the 3rd of April or the 4th of March.

So you'll have to decide what you're going to accept - that is, you need to write a specification of your problem. No-one can help you write code until you have done that.

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Author, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer\'s Reference

Hello mhkay,

I just needed to cut out the dates and print it on the paper.
So it doesn't matter if the teacher wrote "04.03.2013" or "04/03/2013". I just wanted to say that the dates will be at different positions in the string.

Anyway, I solved the problem with functions substring-before and substring-after.