Replace element text in XSLT - xslt

I have following code:
<xsl:if test="#class = 'abc' and name(.) = 'span'">
<xsl:call-template name="multiReplace">
<xsl:with-param name="pText" select="."/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
The template "multiReplace" is finding old value and replacing new values.
I want to replace the following span text with NewText text :
<span class="abc">Old:</span>
to
<span class="abc">NewText:</span>
but I am getting :
<span class="abc">Old:NewText:</span>
below is the other related code:
<my:params xml:space="preserve">
<pattern>
<old>Old: </old>
<new>NewText:</new>
</pattern>
<pattern>
<old>Contact</old>
<new>Phone</new>
</pattern>
</my:params>
<xsl:variable name="vPats" select="document('')/*/my:params/*"/>
<xsl:template name="multiReplace">
<xsl:param name="pText" select="."/>
<xsl:param name="pPatterns" select="$vPats"/>
<xsl:if test="string-length($pText) > 0">
<xsl:variable name="vPat" select="$vPats[starts-with($pText, old)][1]"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="not($vPat)">
<xsl:copy-of select="substring($pText,1,1)"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:copy-of select="$vPat/new/node()"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:call-template name="multiReplace">
<xsl:with-param name="pText" select="substring($pText, 1 + not($vPat) + string-length($vPat/old/node()))"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
Can you please take a look, what is the error here?

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How to use regex in xsl

I have this request coming in xml. Its a CDATA
<cmd>
<![CDATA[HG<><><36.75><0420>< ><HS6011201700446279><><>< >< >< ><><>< ><>< >< ><>< ><>< ><>]]>
</cmd>
I need to extract HS6011201700446279 from the cdata path.
Following is the regex they gave. How to use this in xsl
HG<\\s*><\\s*><.*><.*><.*><[A-Z]{2}(\\d{10,}).*
There is no regex support in XSLT 1.0. Assuming that the sub-string you want is within the 6th "tag" of the given string, you could extract it by calling a recursive named template:
<xsl:template match="cmd">
<result>
<xsl:call-template name="get-Nth-value">
<xsl:with-param name="list" select="."/>
<xsl:with-param name="N" select="6"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</result>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="get-Nth-value">
<xsl:param name="list"/>
<xsl:param name="N"/>
<xsl:param name="delimiter" select="'><'"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$N = 1">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(concat($list, $delimiter), $delimiter)"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="contains($list, $delimiter) and $N > 1">
<!-- recursive call -->
<xsl:call-template name="get-Nth-value">
<xsl:with-param name="list" select="substring-after($list, $delimiter)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="N" select="$N - 1"/>
<xsl:with-param name="delimiter" select="$delimiter"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>

Removing &#160 with XSLT

I hope someone can help me with this...
I am using SharePoint 2013 and trying to render a CQWP to show the latest blog posts. The problem I have is that when displaying the 'content' from the post I get '&#160' added and quotes are shown as '&quot'. I have managed to strip the HTML mark up but can't seem to get rid of these.
My code is as follows - any help would be much appreciated, thanks.
Generate Summary and Remove HTML
<!-- Generate Summary -->
<xsl:template name="GenerateSummary">
<xsl:param name="Content"/>
<xsl:param name="Length"/>
<xsl:param name="Suffix"/>
<xsl:variable name="cleanContent">
<xsl:call-template name="RemoveHtml">
<xsl:with-param name="String" select="$Content"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:call-template name="SubstringBeforeLast">
<xsl:with-param name="String"
select="substring($cleanContent, 1, $Length)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="Char" select="' '"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:if test="string-length($cleanContent) > $Length">
<xsl:value-of select="$Suffix"
disable-output-escaping="yes"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<!-- RemoveHTML -->
<xsl:template name="RemoveHtml">
<xsl:param name="String"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($String, '<')">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($String, '<')"/>
<xsl:call-template name="RemoveHtml">
<xsl:with-param name="String"
select="substring-after($String, '>')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$String"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="SubstringBeforeLast">
<xsl:param name="String" />
<xsl:param name="Char" />
<xsl:param name="subsequent"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($String, $Char)">
<xsl:if test="$subsequent = 1">
<xsl:value-of select="$Char"/>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($String, $Char)"/>
<xsl:call-template name="SubstringBeforeLast">
<xsl:with-param name="String"
select="substring-after($String, $Char)" />
<xsl:with-param name="Char" select="$Char" />
<xsl:with-param name="subsequent" select="1"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:if test="$subsequent != 1">
<xsl:value-of select="$String"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
Calling it here
<div class="fcItemContent">
<xsl:call-template name="GenerateSummary">
<xsl:with-param name="Content" select="#content" />
<xsl:with-param name="Length" select="200" />
<xsl:with-param name="Suffix" select="'...'"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</div>
Use function of XSLT
normalize-space()
**<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space()"/>**
White space is normalized by stripping leading and trailing white space and replacing sequences of white space characters with a single space. If the argument is omitted, the string-value of the context node is normalized and returned.
referred Link :
Remove Space using XSLT

xsl if in xsl if

Hi i'm having the below xml.
<primaryie>
<content-style font-style="bold">Administration</content-style>
</primaryie>
and when i'm applying the below xslt it is working fine.(the content-style part)
<xsl:template match="primaryie">
<div class="primaryie">
<xsl:apply-templates select="content-style"/>
<xsl:if test="contains(current()/text(), '.')">
<xsl:variable name="numberString" select="substring(current()/text(), string-length(substring-before(current()/text(),'.'))-1)"></xsl:variable>
<xsl:call-template name="numbersToLink">
<xsl:with-param name="numbersString" select="$numberString"></xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</div>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="numbersToLink">
<xsl:param name="numbersString"></xsl:param>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($numbersString, ',')">
<xsl:call-template name="splitByComma">
<xsl:with-param name="numString" select="$numbersString"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="contains($numbersString, '-')">
<xsl:call-template name="splitByHyphen">
<xsl:with-param name="numString" select="$numbersString"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="5 >= string-length(normalize-space($numbersString))">
<xsl:variable name="x">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-after($numbersString,'.')"></xsl:value-of>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="y">
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(substring-before($numbersString,'.'))"></xsl:value-of>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="conca">
<xsl:value-of select="concat('er:#BVI_CH_0',$y,'/P',$y,'-',$x)"/>
</xsl:variable>
<a href="{$conca}">
<xsl:value-of select="$numbersString"/>
</a>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="splitByComma">
<xsl:param name="numString"></xsl:param>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains(substring-before($numString,','), '-')">
<xsl:call-template name="splitByHyphen">
<xsl:with-param name="numString" select="$numString"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="contains($numString,',')">
<xsl:variable name="abc">
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(substring-before($numString,'.'))"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="def">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after($numString,'.'),',') "/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="conct">
<xsl:value-of select="concat('er:#BVI_CH_0',$abc,'/P',$abc,'-',$def)"/>
<!--"concat(concat('er:#BVI_CH_0',,'/P',$y,'-',$x)"/-->
</xsl:variable>
<a href="{$conct}">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($numString,',')"/>
</a>
<xsl:text>, </xsl:text>
<xsl:if test="contains(substring-after($numString,','), '.')">
<xsl:call-template name="numbersToLink">
<xsl:with-param name="numbersString" select="normalize-space(substring-after($numString,','))"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="splitByHyphen">
<xsl:param name="numString"></xsl:param>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($numString,'-')">
<xsl:variable name="abc">
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(substring-before($numString,'.'))"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="def">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(substring-after($numString,'.'),'-') "/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="conct">
<xsl:value-of select="concat('er:#BVI_CH_0',$abc,'/P',$abc,'-',$def)"/>
<!--"concat(concat('er:#BVI_CH_0',,'/P',$y,'-',$x)"/-->
</xsl:variable>
<a href="{$conct}">
<!--<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($numString,'-')"/>-->
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($numString,'-')"/>
</a>
<xsl:text>–</xsl:text>
<xsl:if test="contains(substring-after($numString,'-'), '.')">
<xsl:call-template name="numbersToLink">
<xsl:with-param name="numbersString" select="normalize-space(substring-after($numString,'-'))"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
but i have a special case in the same document as below xml states.
<primaryie>
<content-style font-style="bold">VIRRGIN system</content-style> 7.204, 7.205
</primaryie>
here when i'm applying the above template it is working with content-style, but i want it to work also with numberstolink template.
the outputs are as below.
current:
<div class="primaryie"><span class="font-style-bold">Virgin Islands Special Trust Act (VISTA) 9.077</span></div>
expexted:
<div class="primaryie"><span class="font-style-bold">Virgin Islands Special Trust Act (VISTA) 9.077</span></div>
Please change this below portion in your code
<xsl:template match="primaryie">
<div class="primaryie">
<xsl:apply-templates select="content-style"/>
<xsl:if test="contains(current(), '.')">
<xsl:variable name="numberString" select="substring(current(), string-length(substring-before(current(),'.'))-1)"></xsl:variable>
<xsl:call-template name="numbersToLink">
<xsl:with-param name="numbersString" select="$numberString"></xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</div>
</xsl:template>
Use only Current() instead of Current()/Text()
Output for give XML is
<div class="primaryie">VIRRGIN system 7.204, 7.205</div>

XSL if help needed please

i am converting an html form to xml sequence, i am using a recursive function to achieve this
so the input to param "list" will be of the form
name=value&name=value&name=value
The template below does this fine and returns an xml sequence as follows
<name>value</name><name>value</name><name>value</name>
Ok so the problem
some of the name value pairs are special and i would like to add a attribute to them so the output would be
<name>value</name><name attr="special">value</name><name>value</name>
so to do this i have an external xml file with a list of special names as follows
<settings><google><option from="color"/><option from="size"/></google></settings>
So if we assume i have a xsl variable $SETTINGS connected to this external document above
<xsl:for-each select="$SETTINGS/google/option"></xsl:for-each>
Should be node with 2 children 1 called color and the other size
wot i want to do is if 1 of these children names = $name add the attribute
something like <xsl:if test="$name = $SETTINGS/google/option/ckild name">
<xsl:template name="tokenize">
<xsl:param name="list"/>
<xsl:variable name="seperator" select="'&'"/>
<xsl:variable name="first" select="substring-before(concat($list, $seperator), $seperator)"/>
<xsl:variable name="butfirst" select="substring-after($list, $seperator)"/>
<xsl:variable name="name" select="normalize-space(substring-before($first, '='))"/>
<xsl:variable name="value" select="normalize-space(substring-after($first, '='))"/>
<xsl:if test="string-length($name)>0 and string-length($value)>0">
<xsl:element name="{$name}">
<xsl:for-each select="$SETTINGS/google/option">
-----> <xsl:if test="$name = $SETTINGS/google/option/ckild name">
<xsl:attribute name="option"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
<xsl:value-of select="$value"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="$butfirst">
<xsl:call-template name="tokenize">
<xsl:with-param name="list" select="$butfirst"/>
<xsl:with-param name="seperator" select="$seperator"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
Many Thanks
Tim Dodgson
This stylesheet:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:variable name="SETTINGS" select="/settings"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:call-template name="tokenize">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="'color=blue&name=value&size=big'"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="tokenize">
<xsl:param name="pString"/>
<xsl:param name="pSeperator" select="'&'"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="not($pString)"/>
<xsl:when test="contains($pString,$pSeperator)">
<xsl:call-template name="tokenize">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring-before($pString, $pSeperator)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pSeperator" select="$pSeperator"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<xsl:call-template name="tokenize">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring-after($pString, $pSeperator)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pSeperator" select="$pSeperator"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:variable name="vName"
select="normalize-space(substring-before($pString,'='))"/>
<xsl:variable name="vValue"
select="normalize-space(substring-after($pString,'='))"/>
<xsl:if test="$vName and $vValue">
<xsl:element name="{$vName}">
<xsl:if test="$vName = $SETTINGS/google/option/#from">
<xsl:attribute name="attr">special</xsl:attribute>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select="$vValue"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
With this input:
<settings>
<google>
<option from="color"/>
<option from="size"/>
</google>
</settings>
Output:
<color attr="special">blue</color>
<name>value</name>
<size attr="special">big</size>
Note: Node set comparison

Converting simple markdown(string) to html with xslt

I'm transforming my XSLT-stylesheets into documentation, and I want a rich experience within the comment nodes for each code-chunk, therefore I want to convert the following comment and output as xhtml:
String:
# This is a title with __bold__ text and *italic* #
This is just a normal line
- list point with some __bold__
- list point with a "link"[http://www.stackoverflow.com]
Wanted output:
<h1> This is a title with <strong>bold</strong> and <span>italic</span> </h1>
<p>This is a normal line</p>
<ul>
<li>list point with some <strong>bold</strong></li>
<li>list point with a link</li>
</ul>
I tried with a recursive function that uses xsl:analyze-string recursively from a ruleset, but can't find a solution that works really well.
Anyone have done this lately, or is there some frameworks out there that has functions to do this ?
thanx in advance! :)
Edit: Added one dirty example:
<!-- Output comments -->
<xsl:template match="comment()" mode="COMMENT">
<xsl:copy-of select="ips:groupReplace(normalize-space(.),
'
(.*)(\n|\r)(.*),
(.*)\*(.*)\*(.*),
(.*)\*\*(.*)\*\*(.*),
(.*)__(.*)__(.*),
(.*)#(.*)#(.*),
(.*)-(.*)
',
'
br,
span.italic,
span.bold,
strong,
h1,
li
')" />
</xsl:template>
<!-- Initializing the iterateRegex function -->
<xsl:function name="ips:groupReplace">
<xsl:param name="string" as="xs:string" />
<xsl:param name="search" />
<xsl:param name="replace" />
<xsl:variable name="regex" select="tokenize($search, ',')" />
<xsl:variable name="replacements" select="tokenize($replace, ',')" />
<xsl:copy-of select="ips:iterateRegex(count($replacements), $string, $regex, $replacements)" />
</xsl:function>
<!-- Iterate each regex -->
<xsl:function name="ips:iterateRegex">
<xsl:param name="counter" />
<xsl:param name="string" />
<xsl:param name="list_regex" />
<xsl:param name="list_replace" />
<xsl:variable name="newStr">
<xsl:analyze-string select="$string" regex="{normalize-space($list_regex[$counter])}" flags="xm">
<xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:variable name="cc" select="contains($list_replace[$counter], '.')" />
<xsl:variable name="tag" select="normalize-space(if ($cc) then (substring-before($list_replace[$counter], '.')) else ($list_replace[$counter]))" />
<xsl:copy-of select="regex-group(1)" />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="normalize-space(regex-group(2)) = ''">
<xsl:element name="{$tag}" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:element name="{$tag}" >
<xsl:if test="$cc">
<xsl:attribute name="class" select="substring-after($list_replace[$counter],'.')" />
</xsl:if>
<xsl:copy-of select="regex-group(2)" />
</xsl:element>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:copy-of select="regex-group(3)" />
</xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:non-matching-substring>
<xsl:copy-of select="." />
</xsl:non-matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="count" select="number($counter) - 1" />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$count > 0">
<xsl:copy-of select="ips:iterateRegex($count, $newStr, $list_regex, $list_replace)" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:copy-of select="$newStr" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:function>
I think you would need a parser. So this stylesheet implements a verbose one:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="text" name="block">
<xsl:param name="pString" select="."/>
<xsl:if test="$pString != ''">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="starts-with($pString,'#')">
<xsl:call-template name="header">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring($pString,2)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="starts-with($pString,'
')">
<xsl:call-template name="list">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring($pString,2)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="paragraph">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="$pString"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="header">
<xsl:param name="pString"/>
<xsl:variable name="vInside"
select="substring-before($pString,'#
')"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$vInside != ''">
<h1>
<xsl:call-template name="inline">
<xsl:with-param name="pString" select="$vInside"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</h1>
<xsl:call-template name="block">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring-after($pString,'#
')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="paragraph">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="concat('#',$pString)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="list">
<xsl:param name="pString"/>
<xsl:variable name="vCheckList" select="starts-with($pString,'- ')"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$vCheckList">
<ul>
<xsl:call-template name="listItem">
<xsl:with-param name="pString" select="$pString"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</ul>
<xsl:call-template name="block">
<xsl:with-param name="pString">
<xsl:call-template name="afterlist">
<xsl:with-param name="pString" select="$pString"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="block">
<xsl:with-param name="pString" select="$pString"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="paragraph">
<xsl:param name="pString"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($pString,'
')">
<p>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($pString,'
')"/>
</p>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<p>
<xsl:value-of select="$pString"/>
</p>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
<xsl:call-template name="block">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring-after($pString,'
')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="afterlist">
<xsl:param name="pString"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="starts-with($pString,'- ')">
<xsl:call-template name="afterlist">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring-after($pString,'
')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$pString"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="listItem">
<xsl:param name="pString"/>
<xsl:if test="starts-with($pString,'- ')">
<li>
<xsl:call-template name="inline">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring-before(substring($pString,3),'
')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</li>
<xsl:call-template name="listItem">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring-after($pString,'
')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="inline">
<xsl:param name="pString" select="."/>
<xsl:if test="$pString != ''">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="starts-with($pString,'__')">
<xsl:call-template name="strong">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring($pString,3)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="starts-with($pString,'*')">
<xsl:call-template name="span">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring($pString,2)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="starts-with($pString,'"')">
<xsl:call-template name="link">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring($pString,2)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="substring($pString,1,1)"/>
<xsl:call-template name="inline">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring($pString,2)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="strong">
<xsl:param name="pString"/>
<xsl:variable name="vInside" select="substring-before($pString,'__')"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$vInside != ''">
<strong>
<xsl:value-of select="$vInside"/>
</strong>
<xsl:call-template name="inline">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring-after($pString,'__')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="'__'"/>
<xsl:call-template name="inline">
<xsl:with-param name="pString" select="$pString"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="span">
<xsl:param name="pString"/>
<xsl:variable name="vInside" select="substring-before($pString,'*')"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$vInside != ''">
<span>
<xsl:value-of select="$vInside"/>
</span>
<xsl:call-template name="inline">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring-after($pString,'*')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="'*'"/>
<xsl:call-template name="inline">
<xsl:with-param name="pString" select="$pString"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="link">
<xsl:param name="pString"/>
<xsl:variable name="vInside"
select="substring-before($pString,'"')"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$vInside != ''">
<xsl:call-template name="href">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring-after($pString,'"')"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pInside" select="$vInside"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="'"'"/>
<xsl:call-template name="inline">
<xsl:with-param name="pString" select="$pString"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="href">
<xsl:param name="pString"/>
<xsl:param name="pInside"/>
<xsl:variable name="vHref"
select="substring-before(substring($pString,2),']')"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="starts-with($pString,'[') and $vHref != ''">
<a href="{$vHref}">
<xsl:value-of select="$pInside"/>
</a>
<xsl:call-template name="inline">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="substring-after($pString,']')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="concat('"',$pInside,'"')"/>
<xsl:call-template name="inline">
<xsl:with-param name="pString" select="$pString"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
With this input:
<text>
# This is a title with __bold__ text and *italic* #
This is just a normal line
- list point with some __bold__
- list point with a "link"[http://www.stackoverflow.com]
</text>
Output:
<h1> This is a title with
<strong>bold</strong> text and
<span>italic</span>
</h1>
<p>This is just a normal line</p>
<ul>
<li>list point with some
<strong>bold</strong>
</li>
<li>list point with a
link
</li>
</ul>
Note: Look how many templates are similar (they follow a pattern), so these could be parametrized. I didn't do that in this case because there seems to be more questions which need some sort of parser, so by the end of the week I will repost an answer implementing functional parser and parser combinators pattern that make very easy to write parsers (just writing its grammar rules).
Edit: XSLT 2.0 solution. This stylesheet:
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="text">
<xsl:param name="pString" select="."/>
<xsl:analyze-string select="$pString"
regex="(#(.*)#
)|((- (.*)
)+)">
<xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="regex-group(1)">
<h1>
<xsl:call-template name="inline">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="regex-group(2)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</h1>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="regex-group(3)">
<ul>
<xsl:call-template name="list">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="regex-group(3)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</ul>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:non-matching-substring>
<xsl:if test=".!='
'">
<p>
<xsl:call-template name="inline">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="normalize-space(.)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</p>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:non-matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="list">
<xsl:param name="pString"/>
<xsl:analyze-string select="$pString" regex="- (.*)
">
<xsl:matching-substring>
<li>
<xsl:call-template name="inline">
<xsl:with-param name="pString"
select="regex-group(1)"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</li>
</xsl:matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="inline">
<xsl:param name="pString" select="."/>
<xsl:analyze-string select="$pString"
regex="(__(.*)__)|(\*(.*)\*)|("(.*)"\[(.*)\])">
<xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="regex-group(1)">
<strong>
<xsl:value-of select="regex-group(2)"/>
</strong>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="regex-group(3)">
<span>
<xsl:value-of select="regex-group(4)"/>
</span>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="regex-group(5)">
<a href="{regex-group(7)}">
<xsl:value-of select="regex-group(6)"/>
</a>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:non-matching-substring>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:non-matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<h1> This is a title with
<strong>bold</strong> text and
<span>italic</span>
</h1>
<p>This is just a normal line</p>
<ul>
<li>list point with some
<strong>bold</strong>
</li>
<li>list point with a
link
</li>
</ul>
This transformation (111 lines):
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:my="my:my"
exclude-result-prefixes="xml xsl xs my">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="vLines" select="tokenize(., '\n')"/>
<xsl:sequence select="my:parse-lines($vLines)"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:function name="my:parse-lines" as="element()*">
<xsl:param name="pLines" as="xs:string*"/>
<xsl:sequence select=
"my:parse-line($pLines, 1, count($pLines))"/>
</xsl:function>
<xsl:function name="my:parse-line" as="element()*">
<xsl:param name="pLines" as="xs:string*"/>
<xsl:param name="pLineNum" as="xs:integer"/>
<xsl:param name="pTotalLines" as="xs:integer"/>
<xsl:if test="not($pLineNum gt $pTotalLines)">
<xsl:variable name="vLine" select="$pLines[$pLineNum]"/>
<xsl:variable name="vLineLength"
select="string-length($vLine)"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test=
"starts-with($vLine, '#')
and
ends-with($vLine, '#')
">
<xsl:variable name="vInnerString"
select="substring($vLine, 2, $vLineLength -2)"/>
<h1>
<xsl:sequence select="my:parse-string($vInnerString)"/>
</h1>
<xsl:sequence select=
"my:parse-line($pLines, $pLineNum+1, $pTotalLines)"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test=
"starts-with($vLine, '- ')
and
not(starts-with($pLines[$pLineNum -1], '- '))
">
<ul>
<li>
<xsl:sequence select="my:parse-string(substring($vLine, 2))"/>
</li>
<xsl:sequence select=
"my:parse-line($pLines, $pLineNum+1, $pTotalLines)"/>
</ul>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="starts-with($vLine, '- ')">
<li>
<xsl:sequence select="my:parse-string(substring($vLine, 2))"/>
</li>
<xsl:sequence select=
"my:parse-line($pLines, $pLineNum+1, $pTotalLines)"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<p>
<xsl:sequence select="my:parse-string($vLine)"/>
</p>
<xsl:sequence select=
"my:parse-line($pLines, $pLineNum+1, $pTotalLines)"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:function>
<xsl:function name="my:parse-string" as="node()*">
<xsl:param name="pS" as="xs:string"/>
<xsl:analyze-string select="$pS" flags="x" regex=
'(__(.*?)__)
|
(\*(.*?)\*)
|
("(.*?)"\[(.*?)\])
'>
<xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="regex-group(1)">
<strong>
<xsl:sequence select="my:parse-string(regex-group(2))"/>
</strong>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="regex-group(3)">
<span>
<xsl:sequence select="my:parse-string(regex-group(4))"/>
</span>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="regex-group(5)">
<a href="{regex-group(7)}">
<xsl:sequence select="regex-group(6)"/>
</a>
</xsl:when>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:non-matching-substring>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:non-matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>
</xsl:function>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when applied on this XML document (the provided text complicated with nested constructs and wrapped in an element):
<t># This is a title with __bold__ text and *italic* #
This is just a normal line
- list point with some __bold__
- list point with a __*"link"[http://www.stackoverflow.com]*__</t>
produces the wanted, correct output:
<h1> This is a title with <strong>bold</strong> text and <span>italic</span>
</h1>
<p>This is just a normal line</p>
<p/>
<ul>
<li> list point with some <strong>bold</strong>
</li>
<li> list point with a <strong>
<span>
link
</span>
</strong>
</li>
</ul>
Do note: The RegEx mechanism of XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0 is adequate for solving this problem.