Text Problem

[rosemm]

Hello everyone,

I'm having a problem pulling the specific text that I want from an XML
file.

When we receive this file from it's source several of the fields have
asterisks at the beginning. For what we need to do with the text we
need the asterisks gone. For example, a name field might have "*Smith".
What I need to produce in my text file is "Smith"

I was hoping to do all the processing on my file with XSLT. Does XSLT
have a function in which I can inspect text and manipulate it? If so
what is it and where can I find more information on it.
Thank you all for your help.

 

[Martin Honnen]

rosemm wrote:

I was hoping to do all the processing on my file with XSLT. Does XSLT
have a function in which I can inspect text and manipulate it? If so
what is it and where can I find more information on it.

XSLT 1.0 uses XPath 1.0 functions as documented here:
<http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#section-String-Functions>
so starts-with and substring-after will probably solve what you are
looking for.

 

[Joris Gillis]

When we receive this file from it's source several of the fields have
asterisks at the beginning. For what we need to do with the text we
need the asterisks gone. For example, a name field might have "*Smith".
What I need to produce in my text file is "Smith"

For this specific problem,you could use the translate function of Xpath: <xsl:value-of select="translate(.,'*','')"/>