[xsl] Re: Find second character in a string (2)

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev at yahoo dot com>]

Paulo Henrique S. Bermejo wrote:

> To be more explicit, I write other once.
> I'm using this below script:
> 
> <xsl:variable name="var-nome-preparado" select="'Clark Jenier Foz'"/>
> <xsl:value-of
> select="substring-before(substring-after(substring-after($var-nome-preparado
> , ' '), ' '), ' ')"/>
> 
> And I only need to get the string "Clark Jenier".

To find the substring after the last occurence of a given string (' ' in your case),

you can reverse the string, then use the substring-before() function just once, then
reverse the result.

The code for a reverse() template can be found at:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2001-08/msg00243.html

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.


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