RE: [xsl] string replace with ­

["Miller, James V (CRD)" <millerjv at crd dot ge dot com>]

Either of these is fine with me.  I am just trying to allow the browser to break the string
"machine.site.domain" at the '.' over a line-end.  If there is a hyphenless way to do this, that
would be great.  This content is inside of a table element and am I just trying to give the browser
an opportunity to reformat the string.

Here is a page that I have formatted like this
http://public.kitware.com/Insight/Testing/HTML/TestingResults/Dashboard/20011102-Nightly/Dashboard.ht
ml

I would also like allow the browser to break lines at a "/".  I am building a table where one of the
columns has text in the form of 

./Testing/Code/Common/foo.cxx

Some of these filenames are very very long. Again, I would like browser to have the freedom to break
a line at a "/".  The template below works fine when I pass it the content from an element.  However,
the template seems to produce bad when I pass it the value of an attribute.  Is there a difference in
what is returned by xsl:value-of when called for an element vs an attribute?

As a concrete example, the attribute value 

./Common/Testing/Cxx/ObjectFactory.cxx

should have been translated to 

.­/Common­/Testing­/Cxx­/ObjectFactory.cxx

but becomes

.A-/CommonA-/TestingA-/CxxA-/ObjectFactory.cxx


  <xsl:template name="SoftHyphenStringAtSlash">
    <xsl:param name="src"/>

    <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="contains($src, '/')">
        <xsl:value-of select="concat(substring-before($src, '/'), '&#173;/')"/>
        <xsl:call-template name="SoftHyphenStringAtSlash">
          <xsl:with-param name="src"><xsl:value-of select="substring-after($src,
'/')"/></xsl:with-param>
        </xsl:call-template>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
        <xsl:value-of select="$src"/>
      </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
  </xsl:template>



-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Flynn [mailto:peter@silmaril.ie]
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 4:09 PM
To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
Subject: Re: [xsl] string replace with &shy;


Miller, James V (CRD) wrote:
> I have an XML file that I am converting to HTML. In the processing, I have a string of the form
> "machine.site.domain".  These strings can be fairly long.  When I output the HTML, I would to add a
> hint to the browser that it can hyphenate this string at any ".".  So when I output the string I
> would like it to be
> 
> machine&shy;.site&shy;.domain
> 
> So that it can be rendered as 
> 
> machine-
> .site.domain

David has answered your question, but can I ask why you want to do this
this way? It will be very misleading to your readers: the normal way to
break URLs over a line-end is to use a hyphenless break at punctuation
points only. My personal preference is to leave the punctuation at the
end of the line, but I know some editors prefer the punctuation at the
start of the next line, eg

machine.
site.domain

or

machine
.site.domain

But I urge you to use one of them and not introduce additional
characters which are not part of the name but could be misunderstood
by the unwary.

///Peter


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