I want to substring the first letter of the first name and the whole second name from email address in XSLT. Not sure if I have to substring then use concat function or how to do it as I don't know the standard length of the email characters.
Input: eman.ahmed#yahoo.com
Desired output: eahmed
<xsl:value-of select="ws:Additional_Information/ws:User_Name_Of_Employee/text()"/>
Should it be something like:
<xsl:value-of select="substring(ws:Additional_Information/ws:User_Name_Of_Manager/text(),1,1,.....)"/>
Thanks for your support!
Well, one way you could look at it is:
<xsl:value-of select="substring(input, 1, 1)"/>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after(input, '.')"/>
In XSLT 2.0 you can do it with regex:
<xsl:value-of select="replace(input, '^(.).*?\.(.*?)$', '$1$2')"/>
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I've the below XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<body>
<p>Industrial drawing: Any creative composition</p>
<p>Industrial drawing: Any creative<fn>
<fnn>4</fnn>
<fnt>
<p>ftn1"</p>
</fnt>
</fn> composition
</p>
</body>
and the below XSL.
<xsl:template match="p">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains(substring-before(./text(),' '),'Article')">
<xsl:text>sect3</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="./text()"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="contains(substring-before(./b/text(),' '),'Section')">
<xsl:text> Sect 2</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="./text()"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="contains(substring-before(./b/text(),' '),'Chapter')">
<xsl:text> Sect 1</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="./text()"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
Here my XSL is working fine for <p>Industrial drawing: Any creative composition</p> but for the below Case
<p>Industrial drawing: Any creative<fn>
<fnn>4</fnn>
<fnt>
<p>ftn1"</p>
</fnt>
</fn> composition
</p>
it is throwing me the below error.
XSLT 2.0 Debugging Error: Error: file:///C:/Users/u0138039/Desktop/Proview/ASAK/DIFC/XSLT/tabel.xslt:38: Wrong occurrence to match required sequence type - Details: - XPTY0004: The supplied sequence ('2' item(s)) has the wrong occurrence to match the sequence type xs:string ('zero or one')
please let me know how can i fix this and grab the text required.
Thanks
The second p element in your example XML has two child text nodes, one containing "Industrial drawing: Any creative" and the other containing a space, "composition", a newline and another six spaces. In XSLT 1.0 it is legal to apply a function that expects a string to an argument that is a set of more than one node, the behaviour is to take the value of the first node and ignore all the others. But in 2.0 it is a type mismatch error to pass two nodes to a function that expected a single value for its parameter.
But in this case I doubt that you really need to use text() at all - if all you care about is seeing whether the string "Article" occurs anywhere within the first word under the p (including when this is nested inside another element) then you can simply use .:
<xsl:when test="contains(substring-before(.,' '),'Article')">
(or better still, use predicates to separate the different conditions into their own templates, with one template matching "Article" paragraphs, another matching "Section" paragraphs, etc.)
The p element in your example has several text nodes, so the expression ./text() creates a sequence. You cannot apply a string function to a sequence; you must convert it to a string first. Instead of:
test="contains(substring-before(./text(),' '),'Article')"
try:
test="contains(substring-before(string-join(text(), ''), ' '), 'Article')"
I have the following element as part of a larger XML
<MT N="NonEnglishAbstract" V="[DE] Deutsch Abstract text [FR] French Abstract text"/>
I need to do some formatting of the value in #V attribute, only if it contains anything like [DE], [FR] or any two capital letters representing a country code within square brackets.
If no such pattern exist, I need to simply write the value of #V without any formatting.
I can use an XSLT 2.0 solution
I was hoping that I could use the matches() function something like
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="matches(#V,'\[([A-Z]{{2}})\]([^\[]+'">
//Do something
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="#V"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
I think all you need is:
matches(#V,'\[[A-Z][A-Z]\]')
You don't have to match the entire string to get a true() ... I tell my students to write as short a reg-ex as possible.
You have not posted anything about what you have tried. How about looking up translate function and translating the strings capital letters to something like "X". Then test that string result for the existence of [XX]. That alone would tell you whether you need to process it.
<xsl:variable name="result">
<xsl:value-of select="translate(#V,'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ','XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX')"/>
</xsl:variable>
Then use that result and then test:
contains($result, "[XX]")
No regex required, pure XSL 1.1
Need to extra part of a string. Assume I can access "date" and get on the output
21.01.2013
Now I don't want to have the '.2013'. I tried these lines:
<xsl:value-of select="date"/>
<xsl:variable name="bdate">
<xsl:value-of select="date"/>
</xsl:variable>
<p>Birthday: <xsl:copy-of substring($bdate,1,5) /></p><br/>
The first line only works, with all lines any variations of the last line will always throw an error. But there is a solution for it, I'm sure. Can anyone help for it .. how would last line look like?
<xsl:value-of select="substring($bdate,1,5)" />
Should work (XSLT has to be well formed XML)
Given the following XML:
<table>
<col width="12pt"/>
<col width="24pt"/>
<col width="12pt"/>
<col width="48pt"/>
</table>
How can I convert the width attributes to numeric values that can be used in mathematical expressions? So far, I have used substring-before to do this. Here is an example template (XSLT 2.0 only) that shows how to sum the values:
<xsl:template match="table">
<xsl:text>Col sum: </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="sum(
for $w
in col/#width
return number(substring-before($w, 'pt'))
)"/>
</xsl:template>
Now my questions:
Is there a more efficient way to do the conversion than substring-before?
What if I don't know the text after the numbers? Any way to do it without using regular expressions?
This is horrible, but depending on just how much you know about the potetntial set of non-numeric characters, you could strip them with translate():
translate("12jfksjkdfjskdfj", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz", "")
returns
"12"
which you can then pass to number() as currently.
(I said it was horrible. Note that translate() is case sensitive, too)
I found this answer from Dimitre Novatchev that provides a very clever XPATH solution that doesn't use regex:
translate(., translate(.,'0123456789', ''), '')
It uses the nested translate to strip all the numbers from the string, which yields all other characters, which are used as the values for the wrapping translate function to strip out and return just the number characters.
Applied to your template:
<xsl:template match="table">
<xsl:text>Col sum: </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="sum(
for $w
in col/#width
return number(translate($w, translate($w,'0123456789', ''), ''))
)"/>
</xsl:template>
If you are using XSLT 2.0 is there a reason why you want to avoid using regex?
The most simple solution would probably be to use the replace function with a regex pattern to match on any non-numeric character and replace with empty string.:
replace($w,'[^0-9]','')
my question is a bit different from the other ones..
i got an xsl-code like this:
<xsl:value-of select="..."/> <xsl:value-of select="...">
what i want in my result is:
result_of_select_1 result_of_select_2
what i get is:
result_of_select_1result_of_select_2
how can i prevent this? ( any xsl:output option for example? )
All the other solutions i found were specificly for the same problem but in the XML-Source document and not in the XSLT-document like this one...
btw. a solution like "insert elements instead of the spaces" is not a possible solution for my, because the xslt-code is generated dynamically
thanks in advance
The white space as you have it is insignificant and gets discarded. If that was not the case, every last bit of white space you have in your XSLT code would end up in the result document. You must be explicit about the white space you want in the result.
User either:
<xsl:value-of select="concat(..., ' ', ...)" />
or:
<xsl:value-of select="..." />
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="..." />
Use:
<xsl:value-of select="..."/><xsl:text> </xsl:text><xsl:value-of select="...">
EDIT:
Refer to this ASCII table for other symbols