Split by delimiter using xslt 1.0 - xslt

This is my XML:
<LIGHT_DESCRIPTION>
<LIGHT_CHARACTERISTICS>Q+LFl</LIGHT_CHARACTERISTICS>
<LIGHT_SIGNAL_GROUP>(6)(1)</LIGHT_SIGNAL_GROUP>
</LIGHT_DESCRIPTION>
For me is necessary split by character '+' :
at Q is referred --> (6)
at LF1 is referred --> (1)
This is the output using XSLT 1.0:
Q (6) - LF1 (1)

Try it this way?
XSLT 1.0
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text" encoding="UTF-8"/>
<xsl:template match="/LIGHT_DESCRIPTION">
<xsl:call-template name="tokenize">
<xsl:with-param name="names" select="LIGHT_CHARACTERISTICS"/>
<xsl:with-param name="values" select="LIGHT_SIGNAL_GROUP"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="tokenize">
<xsl:param name="names"/>
<xsl:param name="values"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($names, '+')">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($names, '+')"/>
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($values, ')')"/>
<xsl:text>) - </xsl:text>
<!-- recursive call -->
<xsl:call-template name="tokenize">
<xsl:with-param name="names" select="substring-after($names, '+')"/>
<xsl:with-param name="values" select="substring-after($values, ')')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="concat($names, ' ', $values)"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Note: IMHO, you are exchanging one bad format for another just as bad. Why don't you take this opportunity to produce output in an established format, such as .csv for example?

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XSLT 1.0 eliminate duplicates and split comma separated string [duplicate]

I would like to ask if there is a function that can be use to to remove a duplicate value inside a string separated by | simplest possible way. I have below example of the string
1111-1|1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5|1111-3
the output that I'm expecting is:
1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5
Thanks in advance.
All presented XSLT 1.0 solutions so far produce the wrong result:
1111-1|1111-4|1111-5|1111-3
whereas the wanted, correct result is:
1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5
Now, the following transformation (no extensions, pure XSLT 1.0):
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:template match="text()" name="distinctSubstrings">
<xsl:param name="pText" select="."/>
<xsl:param name="poutDelim"/>
<xsl:param name="pFoundDistinctSubs" select="'|'"/>
<xsl:param name="pCountDistinct" select="0"/>
<xsl:if test="$pText">
<xsl:variable name="vnextSub" select="substring-before(concat($pText, '|'), '|')"/>
<xsl:variable name="vIsNewDistinct" select=
"not(contains(concat($pFoundDistinctSubs, '|'), concat('|', $vnextSub, '|')))"/>
<xsl:variable name="vnextDistinct" select=
"substring(concat($poutDelim,$vnextSub), 1 div $vIsNewDistinct)"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$vnextDistinct"/>
<xsl:variable name="vNewFoundDistinctSubs"
select="concat($pFoundDistinctSubs, $vnextDistinct)"/>
<xsl:variable name="vnextOutDelim"
select="substring('|', 2 - ($pCountDistinct > 0))"/>
<xsl:call-template name="distinctSubstrings">
<xsl:with-param name="pText" select="substring-after($pText, '|')"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pFoundDistinctSubs" select="$vNewFoundDistinctSubs"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pCountDistinct" select="$pCountDistinct + $vIsNewDistinct"/>
<xsl:with-param name="poutDelim" select="$vnextOutDelim"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when applied on this XML document (with string value the provided string in the question):
<t>1111-1|1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5|1111-3</t>
produces the wanted, correct result:
1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5
Explanation:
All found distinct substrings are concatenated in the parameter $pFoundDistinctSubs -- whenever we get the next substring from the delimited input, we compare it to the distinct substrings passed in this parameter. This ensures that the first in order distinct substring will be output -- not the last as in the other two solutions.
We use conditionless value determination, based on the fact that XSLT 1.0 implicitly converts a Boolean false() to 0 and true() to 1 whenever it is used in a context that requires a numeric value. In particular, substring($x, 1 div true()) is equivalent to substring($x, 1 div 1) that is: substring($x, 1) and this is the entire string $x. On the other side, substring($x, 1 div false()) is equivalent to substring($x, 1 div 0) -- that is: substring($x, Infinity) and this is the empty string.
To know why avoiding conditionals is important: watch this Pluralsight course:
Tactical Design Patterns in .NET: Control Flow, by Zoran Horvat
To do this in pure XSLT 1.0, with no extension functions, you will need to use a recursive named template:
<xsl:template name="distinct-values-from-list">
<xsl:param name="list"/>
<xsl:param name="delimiter" select="'|'"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($list, $delimiter)">
<xsl:variable name="token" select="substring-before($list, $delimiter)" />
<xsl:variable name="next-list" select="substring-after($list, $delimiter)" />
<!-- output token if it is unique -->
<xsl:if test="not(contains(concat($delimiter, $next-list, $delimiter), concat($delimiter, $token, $delimiter)))">
<xsl:value-of select="concat($token, $delimiter)"/>
</xsl:if>
<!-- recursive call -->
<xsl:call-template name="distinct-values-from-list">
<xsl:with-param name="list" select="$next-list"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$list"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
Full demo: http://xsltransform.net/ncdD7mM
Added:
The above method outputs the last occurrence of each value in the list, because that's the simplest way to remove the duplicates.
The side effect of this is that the original order of the values is not preserved. Or - more correctly - it is the reverse order that is being preserved.
I would not think preserving the original forward order is of any importance here. But in case you do need it, it could be done this way (which I believe is much easier to follow than the suggested alternative):
<xsl:template name="distinct-values-from-list">
<xsl:param name="list"/>
<xsl:param name="delimiter" select="'|'"/>
<xsl:param name="result"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$list">
<xsl:variable name="token" select="substring-before(concat($list, $delimiter), $delimiter)" />
<!-- recursive call -->
<xsl:call-template name="distinct-values-from-list">
<xsl:with-param name="list" select="substring-after($list, $delimiter)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="result">
<xsl:value-of select="$result"/>
<!-- add token if this is its first occurrence -->
<xsl:if test="not(contains(concat($delimiter, $result, $delimiter), concat($delimiter, $token, $delimiter)))">
<xsl:value-of select="concat($delimiter, $token)"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="substring($result, 2)"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
Assuming that you can use XSLT 2.0, and assuming that the input looks like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>1111-1|1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5|1111-3</root>
you could use the distinct-values and tokenize functions:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/root">
<result>
<xsl:value-of separator="|" select="distinct-values(tokenize(.,'\|'))"/>
</result>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>
And the result will be
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<result>1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5</result>
I have adapted a stylesheet below from (XSLT 1.0 How to get distinct values)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<output>
<xsl:call-template name="distinctvalues">
<xsl:with-param name="values" select="root"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</output>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="distinctvalues">
<xsl:param name="values"/>
<xsl:variable name="firstvalue" select="substring-before($values, '|')"/>
<xsl:variable name="restofvalue" select="substring-after($values, '|')"/>
<xsl:if test="not(contains($values, '|'))">
<xsl:value-of select="$values"/>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="contains($restofvalue, $firstvalue) = false">
<xsl:value-of select="$firstvalue"/>
<xsl:text>|</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="$restofvalue != ''">
<xsl:call-template name="distinctvalues">
<xsl:with-param name="values" select="$restofvalue" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
with a sample input of:
<root>1111-1|1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5|1111-3</root>
and the output is
<output>1111-1|1111-4|1111-5|1111-3</output>
**** EDIT ****
per Michael's comment below, here is the revised stylesheet which uses a saxon extension:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon"
exclude-result-prefixes="saxon"
version="1.1">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:variable name="aaa">
<xsl:call-template name="tokenizeString">
<xsl:with-param name="list" select="root"/>
<xsl:with-param name="delimiter" select="'|'"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="saxon:node-set($aaa)/token[not(preceding::token/. = .)]">
<xsl:if test="position() > 1">
<xsl:text>|</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="tokenizeString">
<!--passed template parameter -->
<xsl:param name="list"/>
<xsl:param name="delimiter"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($list, $delimiter)">
<token>
<!-- get everything in front of the first delimiter -->
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($list,$delimiter)"/>
</token>
<xsl:call-template name="tokenizeString">
<!-- store anything left in another variable -->
<xsl:with-param name="list" select="substring-after($list,$delimiter)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="delimiter" select="$delimiter"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$list = ''">
<xsl:text/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<token>
<xsl:value-of select="$list"/>
</token>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
given an input of:
<root>cat|cat|catalog|catalog|red|red|wired|wired</root>
it outputs
cat|catalog|red|wired
and with this input:
<root>1111-1|1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5|1111-3</root>
the output is
1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5

Function that can be use to omit duplicate value on a string

I would like to ask if there is a function that can be use to to remove a duplicate value inside a string separated by | simplest possible way. I have below example of the string
1111-1|1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5|1111-3
the output that I'm expecting is:
1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5
Thanks in advance.
All presented XSLT 1.0 solutions so far produce the wrong result:
1111-1|1111-4|1111-5|1111-3
whereas the wanted, correct result is:
1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5
Now, the following transformation (no extensions, pure XSLT 1.0):
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:template match="text()" name="distinctSubstrings">
<xsl:param name="pText" select="."/>
<xsl:param name="poutDelim"/>
<xsl:param name="pFoundDistinctSubs" select="'|'"/>
<xsl:param name="pCountDistinct" select="0"/>
<xsl:if test="$pText">
<xsl:variable name="vnextSub" select="substring-before(concat($pText, '|'), '|')"/>
<xsl:variable name="vIsNewDistinct" select=
"not(contains(concat($pFoundDistinctSubs, '|'), concat('|', $vnextSub, '|')))"/>
<xsl:variable name="vnextDistinct" select=
"substring(concat($poutDelim,$vnextSub), 1 div $vIsNewDistinct)"/>
<xsl:value-of select="$vnextDistinct"/>
<xsl:variable name="vNewFoundDistinctSubs"
select="concat($pFoundDistinctSubs, $vnextDistinct)"/>
<xsl:variable name="vnextOutDelim"
select="substring('|', 2 - ($pCountDistinct > 0))"/>
<xsl:call-template name="distinctSubstrings">
<xsl:with-param name="pText" select="substring-after($pText, '|')"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pFoundDistinctSubs" select="$vNewFoundDistinctSubs"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pCountDistinct" select="$pCountDistinct + $vIsNewDistinct"/>
<xsl:with-param name="poutDelim" select="$vnextOutDelim"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when applied on this XML document (with string value the provided string in the question):
<t>1111-1|1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5|1111-3</t>
produces the wanted, correct result:
1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5
Explanation:
All found distinct substrings are concatenated in the parameter $pFoundDistinctSubs -- whenever we get the next substring from the delimited input, we compare it to the distinct substrings passed in this parameter. This ensures that the first in order distinct substring will be output -- not the last as in the other two solutions.
We use conditionless value determination, based on the fact that XSLT 1.0 implicitly converts a Boolean false() to 0 and true() to 1 whenever it is used in a context that requires a numeric value. In particular, substring($x, 1 div true()) is equivalent to substring($x, 1 div 1) that is: substring($x, 1) and this is the entire string $x. On the other side, substring($x, 1 div false()) is equivalent to substring($x, 1 div 0) -- that is: substring($x, Infinity) and this is the empty string.
To know why avoiding conditionals is important: watch this Pluralsight course:
Tactical Design Patterns in .NET: Control Flow, by Zoran Horvat
To do this in pure XSLT 1.0, with no extension functions, you will need to use a recursive named template:
<xsl:template name="distinct-values-from-list">
<xsl:param name="list"/>
<xsl:param name="delimiter" select="'|'"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($list, $delimiter)">
<xsl:variable name="token" select="substring-before($list, $delimiter)" />
<xsl:variable name="next-list" select="substring-after($list, $delimiter)" />
<!-- output token if it is unique -->
<xsl:if test="not(contains(concat($delimiter, $next-list, $delimiter), concat($delimiter, $token, $delimiter)))">
<xsl:value-of select="concat($token, $delimiter)"/>
</xsl:if>
<!-- recursive call -->
<xsl:call-template name="distinct-values-from-list">
<xsl:with-param name="list" select="$next-list"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$list"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
Full demo: http://xsltransform.net/ncdD7mM
Added:
The above method outputs the last occurrence of each value in the list, because that's the simplest way to remove the duplicates.
The side effect of this is that the original order of the values is not preserved. Or - more correctly - it is the reverse order that is being preserved.
I would not think preserving the original forward order is of any importance here. But in case you do need it, it could be done this way (which I believe is much easier to follow than the suggested alternative):
<xsl:template name="distinct-values-from-list">
<xsl:param name="list"/>
<xsl:param name="delimiter" select="'|'"/>
<xsl:param name="result"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$list">
<xsl:variable name="token" select="substring-before(concat($list, $delimiter), $delimiter)" />
<!-- recursive call -->
<xsl:call-template name="distinct-values-from-list">
<xsl:with-param name="list" select="substring-after($list, $delimiter)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="result">
<xsl:value-of select="$result"/>
<!-- add token if this is its first occurrence -->
<xsl:if test="not(contains(concat($delimiter, $result, $delimiter), concat($delimiter, $token, $delimiter)))">
<xsl:value-of select="concat($delimiter, $token)"/>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="substring($result, 2)"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
Assuming that you can use XSLT 2.0, and assuming that the input looks like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>1111-1|1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5|1111-3</root>
you could use the distinct-values and tokenize functions:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes" />
<xsl:template match="/root">
<result>
<xsl:value-of separator="|" select="distinct-values(tokenize(.,'\|'))"/>
</result>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:transform>
And the result will be
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<result>1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5</result>
I have adapted a stylesheet below from (XSLT 1.0 How to get distinct values)
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<output>
<xsl:call-template name="distinctvalues">
<xsl:with-param name="values" select="root"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</output>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="distinctvalues">
<xsl:param name="values"/>
<xsl:variable name="firstvalue" select="substring-before($values, '|')"/>
<xsl:variable name="restofvalue" select="substring-after($values, '|')"/>
<xsl:if test="not(contains($values, '|'))">
<xsl:value-of select="$values"/>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="contains($restofvalue, $firstvalue) = false">
<xsl:value-of select="$firstvalue"/>
<xsl:text>|</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="$restofvalue != ''">
<xsl:call-template name="distinctvalues">
<xsl:with-param name="values" select="$restofvalue" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
with a sample input of:
<root>1111-1|1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5|1111-3</root>
and the output is
<output>1111-1|1111-4|1111-5|1111-3</output>
**** EDIT ****
per Michael's comment below, here is the revised stylesheet which uses a saxon extension:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:saxon="http://icl.com/saxon"
exclude-result-prefixes="saxon"
version="1.1">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
<xsl:variable name="aaa">
<xsl:call-template name="tokenizeString">
<xsl:with-param name="list" select="root"/>
<xsl:with-param name="delimiter" select="'|'"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="saxon:node-set($aaa)/token[not(preceding::token/. = .)]">
<xsl:if test="position() > 1">
<xsl:text>|</xsl:text>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="tokenizeString">
<!--passed template parameter -->
<xsl:param name="list"/>
<xsl:param name="delimiter"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($list, $delimiter)">
<token>
<!-- get everything in front of the first delimiter -->
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($list,$delimiter)"/>
</token>
<xsl:call-template name="tokenizeString">
<!-- store anything left in another variable -->
<xsl:with-param name="list" select="substring-after($list,$delimiter)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="delimiter" select="$delimiter"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$list = ''">
<xsl:text/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<token>
<xsl:value-of select="$list"/>
</token>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
given an input of:
<root>cat|cat|catalog|catalog|red|red|wired|wired</root>
it outputs
cat|catalog|red|wired
and with this input:
<root>1111-1|1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5|1111-3</root>
the output is
1111-1|1111-3|1111-4|1111-5

How to refer node created by one template in XSLT at runtime from the calling template?

I have split one string key6='||1-LIW-3324|1-LIW-3325|1-LIW-3326|1-LIW-3327|1-LIW-4232' with separator '|' thru one template named StringSplit.
I have called this StringSplit template from another template. So each split value is stored in SeparatedLineItems.
Now I want to refer each split node(SeparatedLineItems) in the calling template and want to compare each separated/split node with another variable . How can i do it.
Here is the code.
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="check3">
<xsl:value-of select="1-LIW-3"/>
</xsl:variable>
<myProj>
<xsl:call-template name="StringSplit">
<xsl:with-param name="val" select="$key6"/>
</xsl:call-template>
<!--here I want to compare "SeperatedLineItems" with $check3 -->
<!--<xsl:variable name="con">
<xsl:value-of select="contains($key6,$check3)"/>
</xsl:variable>-->
</myProj>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="StringSplit">
<xsl:param name="val" select="$key6"/>
<!-- do a check to see if the input string (still) has a "|" in it -->
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($val, '|')">
<!-- pull out the value of the string before the "|" delimiter -->
<SeperatedLineItems>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($val, '|')"/>
</SeperatedLineItems>
<!-- recursively call this template and pass in value AFTER the "|" delimiter -->
<xsl:call-template name="StringSplit">
<xsl:with-param name="val" select="substring-after($val, '|')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<!-- if there is no more delimiter values, print out the whole string -->
<SeperatedLineItems>
<xsl:value-of select="$val"/>
</SeperatedLineItems>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
This XSLT 1.0 style-sheet demonstrates how to access the elements returned by calling a template ...
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"
exclude-result-prefixes="xsl msxsl">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:variable name="key6" select="'||1-LIW-3324|1-LIW-3325|1-LIW-3326|1-LIW-3327|1-LIW-4232'" />
<xsl:template match="/">
Does my $key6 variable contain precisely '1-LIW-3'?
<xsl:variable name="keys">
<xsl:call-template name="StringSplit">
<xsl:with-param name="val" select="$key6"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="msxsl:node-set($keys)/*[. = '1-LIW-3']">
YES
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
NO
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="StringSplit">
<xsl:param name="val" />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($val,'|')">
<SeperatedLineItems>
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before($val,'|')" />
</SeperatedLineItems>
<xsl:variable name="remainder">
<xsl:call-template name="StringSplit">
<xsl:with-param name="val" select="substring-after($val,'|')" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:copy-of select="msxsl:node-set($remainder)/*" />
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$val != ''">
<SeperatedLineItems>
<xsl:value-of select="$val" />
</SeperatedLineItems>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
To which the result is...
Does my $key6 variable contain '1-LIW-3'?
NO
And here is the XSLT 2.0 equivalent...
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
exclude-result-prefixes="xsl xs">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:variable name="key6" select="'||1-LIW-3324|1-LIW-3325|1-LIW-3326|1-LIW-3327|1-LIW-4232'" />
<xsl:template match="/">
Does my $key6 variable contain precisely '1-LIW-3'?
<xsl:variable name="keys" select="tokenize($key6,'\|')" as="xs:string*" />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="some $key in $keys satisfies ($key = '1-LIW-3')">
YES
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
NO
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
The above makes the $keys variable a sequence of strings rather than elements containing strings. If you prefer elements, then you could use the following alternative. Although this alternative suffers from the disadvantage that it does not include the empty string items.
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
exclude-result-prefixes="xsl xs">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:variable name="key6" select="'||1-LIW-3324|1-LIW-3325|1-LIW-3326|1-LIW-3327|1-LIW-4232'" />
<xsl:template match="/">
Does my $key6 variable contain precisely '1-LIW-3'?
<xsl:variable name="keys" as="element()*" >
<xsl:analyze-string select="concat($key6,'|')" regex="([^\|]*)\|">
<xsl:matching-substring>
<SeperatedLineItems>
<xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)" />
</SeperatedLineItems>
</xsl:matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$keys[. = '1-LIW-3']">
YES
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
NO
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Adding numbers in a string using XSLT

I have a string (in a variable) that has a list of numbers separated by space or comma.
I need to sum the numbers in the string.
example string "1,2,5,12,3"
or "1 2 5 12 3"
Is there a way to add the numbers within the string and return the total?
This much shorter transformation:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:template match="text()" name="sumStringList">
<xsl:param name="pText" select="."/>
<xsl:param name="pSum" select="0"/>
<xsl:param name="pDelim" select="','"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="not(string-length($pText) >0)">
<xsl:value-of select="$pSum"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:variable name="vnewList"
select="concat($pText,$pDelim)"/>
<xsl:variable name="vHead" select=
"substring-before($vnewList, $pDelim)"/>
<xsl:call-template name="sumStringList">
<xsl:with-param name="pText" select=
"substring-after($pText, $pDelim)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pSum" select="$pSum+$vHead"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pDelim" select="$pDelim"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when applied on the following XML document:
<t>1,2,5,12,3</t>
produces the wanted, correct result:
23
Explanation: Recursively called named template that also matches a text node. A sentinel (appended comma) is added to speed up and streamline processing.
II. XSLT 2.0 solution:
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:param name="pDelim" select="','"/>
<xsl:template match="text()">
<xsl:sequence select=
"sum(for $s in tokenize(.,$pDelim)
return number($s)
)
"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
When applied on the same XML document (above), this transformation produces the same wanted, correct answer:
23
Here we use the standard XPath 2.0 function tokenize() and we must convert every resulting token to number (using the number() function) before finally applying the standard XPath function sum().
I don't know XSLT, but generally you would split the string using spaces and commas as separators.
After a quick search I found that you can use tokenize(string, separator) as the split function if you are using XSLT 2.0. This page has an example on how to use tokenize.
Here is an XSLT 1.0 solution
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:variable name="listOfValues" select="'1,2,5,12,3'" />
<xsl:call-template name="splitAndAdd">
<xsl:with-param name="list" select="$listOfValues"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="splitAndAdd">
<xsl:param name="list" />
<xsl:param name="delimiter" select="','"/>
<xsl:param name="total" select="0" />
<xsl:variable name="newList">
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($list, $delimiter)">
<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space($list)"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="concat(normalize-space($list),$delimiter)" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="token"
select="substring-before($newList, $delimiter)" />
<xsl:variable name="remaining"
select="normalize-space(substring-after($newList, $delimiter))" />
<xsl:variable name="newTotal" select="$total + number($token)" />
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$remaining">
<xsl:call-template name="splitAndAdd">
<xsl:with-param name="delimiter" select="$delimiter"/>
<xsl:with-param name="list" select="$remaining"/>
<xsl:with-param name="total" select="$newTotal" />
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$newTotal" />
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

How to parse a delimited string using the index of the delimiter in xslt?

I have a delimited string which looks like below
FirstName&LastName&Address1&Address2&City&State&country&
I need to split the string based on the index of occurrence of the delimiter.
Say, if i need the first four values in the string, i should get the output in
two different variables, where the first variable should have the string with
first four values and the second variable having the remaining string.
I don't want to use exslt or any other extensions.
Please help me with a simple solution.
Input:
<xsl:variable name="index" select='4' />
<xsl:variable name="delimitedString" select='FirstName&LastName&Address1&Address2&City&State&country&' />
Output:
<xsl:variable name="requiredString">
FirstName&LastName&Address1&Address2&
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="remainingString">
City&State&country&
</xsl:variable>
This transformation:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:param name="pSplitIndex" select="4"/>
<xsl:template match="text()" name="splitAt">
<xsl:param name="pLeft" select="''"/>
<xsl:param name="pRight" select="."/>
<xsl:param name="pSplitAt" select="$pSplitIndex"/>
<xsl:param name="pDelim" select="'&'"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test=
"not(string-length($pRight))
or
not(contains($pRight, $pDelim))
">
<t1>
<xsl:value-of select="concat($pLeft, $pRight)"/>
</t1>
<t2/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$pSplitAt = 0">
<t1><xsl:value-of select="$pLeft"/></t1>
<t2><xsl:value-of select="$pRight"/></t2>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="splitAt">
<xsl:with-param name="pLeft" select=
"concat($pLeft, substring-before($pRight, $pDelim), $pDelim)
"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pRight"
select="substring-after($pRight, $pDelim)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pSplitAt" select="$pSplitAt -1"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pDelim" select="$pDelim"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when applied on this XML document:
<t>FirstName&LastName&Address1&Address2&City&State&country&</t>
produces the required two strings that result from splitting /t/text() at the fourth & delimiter:
<t1>FirstName&LastName&Address1&Address2&</t1>
<t2>City&State&country&</t2>
You can define a variable, say vrtfSplitResult whose body is the result of applying templates to the text node containing the string. Then, if you can use the xxx:node-set() extension, the two variables you want to define are:
<xsl:variable name="requiredString"
select="xxx:node-set($vrtfSplitResult)/*/t1">
<xsl:variable name="remainingString"
select="xxx:node-set($vrtfSplitResult)/*/t2">
In case you are not allowed to use even the xxx:node-set() extension function, then you should use a similar, named template: getStartingString. This has pretty much the logic of the splitAt template above:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:param name="pSplitIndex" select="4"/>
<xsl:template match="text()">
<xsl:variable name="vrequiredString">
<xsl:call-template name="getStartingString"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="vremainingString" select=
"substring-after(.,$vrequiredString)"/>
<t>
<t1><xsl:value-of select="$vrequiredString"/></t1>
<t2><xsl:value-of select="$vremainingString"/></t2>
</t>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="getStartingString">
<xsl:param name="pLeft" select="''"/>
<xsl:param name="pRight" select="."/>
<xsl:param name="pSplitAt" select="$pSplitIndex"/>
<xsl:param name="pDelim" select="'&'"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test=
"not(string-length($pRight))
or
not(contains($pRight, $pDelim))
">
<xsl:value-of select="$pLeft"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$pSplitAt = 0">
<xsl:value-of select="$pLeft"/>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:call-template name="getStartingString">
<xsl:with-param name="pLeft" select=
"concat($pLeft, substring-before($pRight, $pDelim), $pDelim)
"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pRight"
select="substring-after($pRight, $pDelim)"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pSplitAt" select="$pSplitAt -1"/>
<xsl:with-param name="pDelim" select="$pDelim"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
when this transformation is applied on the same XML document, the wanted, correct result is produced again:
<t>
<t1>FirstName&LastName&Address1&Address2&</t1>
<t2>City&State&country&</t2>
</t>