RE: [xsl] pattern matching in xslt

["Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>]

As others have said, it depends greatly on your definition of "trash". You
might be able to get away with

normalize-space(translate(., '.?!#~', ''))

Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of
> David Nelson
> Sent: 23 April 2002 21:32
> To: 'xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com'
> Subject: [xsl] pattern matching in xslt
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I would sincerely apprec. any help you might offer.  What I
> need to do is
> tokenize a node value into chunks, filter the trash and
> return in the xml,
> the new clean string. I'm a newbie with xslt and am having a
> tough time
> deciphering how to accomplish this.
>
> As an examle:
>
> <document>
> 	<description>The quick .. brown fox .. jumped over ..
> the lazy ..
> programmer</description>
> </document>
>
> apply xsl and return: <result>The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy
> programmer</result>
>
> Any recomendations on how to do this?  I have combed the
> documentation I
> have so I could also use advice on better documentation as to the
> implementation of XSLT.  Specifically, I'm using Xalan.
>
> Thanks!
>
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