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Re: A new XSLT function: node-set createTextNodes(object,object?)
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] A new XSLT function: node-set createTextNodes(object,object?)
- From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv at dyomedea dot com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:17:55 +0100
- Organization: Dyomedea <http://dyomedea.com>
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Hi Nic,
Miloslav Nic wrote:
>
> The following mail I have sent to xsl-editors@w3.org
> with cc to "xsl-list@mulberrytech.com".
>
> node-set createTextNodes(object,object?)
>
> Rationale: text handling is rather cumbersome in XSLT, some general
> method would be very useful
>
> The proposed function takes the first argument and converts it
> into a string
> The second optional object is a separator (default = whitespaces \s+)
>
IMHO, what would be really nice and really powerful would be to allow a
regular expression as 2nd parameter and to return a node set with the
matching substrings...
Eric
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