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RE: Maipulating text string data in XML file with XSL ??
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Maipulating text string data in XML file with XSL ??
- From: "Chris Bayes" <chris at bayes dot co dot uk>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 11:59:29 +0100
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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
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> Ross Kendall
> Sent: 28 September 2001 09:35
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> 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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