[xsl] Re: Taking string out from the long string

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev at yahoo dot com>]

--- "ashu t" <aashut at rediffmail dot com> wrote:

> i want to abstract just the file name from any image file
> but not getting it correctly.
> during conversion of html to wml when i am fetching the page i am
> converting the .jif or .jpg or whatever image file into .wbmp format
> and storing them in a folder.
> and in <xsl:template match="img">
> what i want to do is that first i want to take the *src* of the img
> tag
> in html file (which is now well formed xhtml as i am using tidy to
> make
> them xhtml).which i think i can do by declaring a variable and then
> variable = {@src}(i think it will work)then i want to take the string
> after the last slash(/) in the src which is the name of the image
> file
> (like src="dir/image.gif") this can be done by string =
> substring-after(string, substring) but the problem is that what to do
> if src is like /images/dir/image.gif how can i tell that the string
> after the last slash is to be taken.
> and after that what i want to do is want to take the file name before
> the extension like if file name is images.gif then i want to take
> only
> images (which i think can be done by substring-before then i want to
> add the extension .wbmp to that file (which i think can be done by
> concat(images,.,wbmp) then i am creating an element <img and in @src
> giving the path to my folder containing images as they are saved with
> the same name just having extension .wbmp.
> 
> how can i do it
> ashu


This question has already been raised several times and you can find
the answer here:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/xsl-list/2002-03/msg00399.html


Hope this helped.


=====
Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL

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