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RE: Tokenizing nodes instead of strings
- From: "Michael Kay" <michael dot h dot kay at ntlworld dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 17:57:53 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Tokenizing nodes instead of strings
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> a.) Can the Saxon or Xalan function "tokenize" be used to break up
> something larger than a string? Basically, can it split a *Node* in
> two, as opposed to a string, like maybe around a linebreak character.
It works on a string. Of course this can be the string-value of a node,
or the concatenation of the string-values of lots of nodes.
>
> b) If "tokenize" can be used in this way, can you use Xpath to find
> and process the new pieces of the old node in separate ways.
>
You probably want to put the pieces together onto a new tree (a "result
tree fragment") and use the xx:node-set() function to process this new
tree.
Michael Kay
Software AG
home: Michael.H.Kay@ntlworld.com
work: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com
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