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Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath 2.0: string to sequence of characters
From: "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 18:11:14 -0800
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On 2/2/07, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> With XPath 2.0, what is the easiest way to split a string
> into a sequence of strings of length one e.g.
> "Kibology" into ("K", "i", "b", "o", "l", "o", "g", "y") I
> came up with e.g.
> for $index in 1 to string-length("Kibology")
> return substring("Kibology", $index, 1) but wonder
> whether there is a shorter/easier way.
>
It's not especially pretty, but I would tend to do
for $i in string-to-codepoints($in) return codepoints-to-string($i)
Or using FXSL:
f:map(f:codepoints-to-string(), string-to-codepoints('Therese'))
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Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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