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RE: Maipulating text string data in XML file with XSL ??


Ross,
There are many ways to do this but they might be difficult to get to
grips with if you are a beginner. As you are familiar with perl have a
look at the regex functions at exslt.org. There are also date time
handling functions there.

Ciao Chris

XML/XSL Portal
http://www.bayes.co.uk/xml


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com 
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com] On Behalf Of 
> Ross Kendall
> Sent: 28 September 2001 09:35
> To: XSL-List
> Subject: [xsl] Maipulating text string data in XML file with XSL ??
> 
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I want to do some simple manipulation of some data in an XML 
> file, however because I don't have a lot of XSLT experience I 
> not sure if I can use it to achieve what I want.  I can 
> easily achieve what I want with perl, but I'm trying to avoid that.
> 
> Here is what a bit of data looks like in the XML file:
> 
> <draw date="2001-9-26" value="3-14-15-17-19-47-(5)" 
> prizes="0,0,0,0,0" />
> 
> In the transformed document I want to change the presentation 
> of the 'date' and the 'value' to be something like this:
> 
> <date>Wednesday, 26 September 2001</date>
> <numbers>03 14 15 17 19 47<numbers/>
> <bonus>05</bonus>
> 
> Thanks in advance to any kind person who responds.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ross Kendall
> Technical Developer
> Affinity Internet Holdings
> e: rkendall@aih.co.uk
> p: +44 (0)20 7670 1155
> w: http://www.aih.co.uk/
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