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Re: finding a bracket: "{"
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] finding a bracket: "{"
- From: Johannes Döbler <jd at aztecrider dot com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:43:00 +0200
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<xsl:variable name="brace">{</xsl:variable>
...
substring-before(.,$brace)
Cheers,
Johannes
>Hi,
>
>I've got the following Element:
>
><Name>feeding{3adff2455fdd}</Name>
>
>The "{" is not at a fixed position.
>Now how do I get the part of the string before "{" with XSLT?
>I've tried using the substring-before(.,'{') function, but it doesn't work,
>because "{" is sort of a control character. I've also tried writing "{" as
>hex
>value and as CDATA in the substring-before() function, but it still doesn't
>work.
>
>Does anybody have an idea how to solve this problem?
>
>
>Greetings, Sebastian Werner.
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