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RE: [xsl] Converting embedded URLs int hot links via XSL

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    I don't think that's really the regexp you want to use, 
    apart frm the fact that it only allows 0-9 and a-z (not 
    even A-Z). It is only matching up to the first optional / 
    so basically just the host name part of the URL plyus 
    optional port specifier.

(That implies that DC actually understood that line noise :-) I'm impressed
David)

    you don't want to use "tokenize() for this you 
    want to use xsl:analyze-string which should give you a 
    handle on the bits of the data matching and not-matching 
    your regexp.

That's it. Thanks David.
    
    I'd use a fairly permissive regexp something like 
    [a-z]+://[^ 
()"']+ ie everything from foo:// to the 
    next space or bracket or quote character.

It works within those limits,

 <xsl:analyze-string select="." 
   regex="http://[^ &#10;( )&#x22;&#x27;]+">

   <xsl:non-matching-substring><xsl:text/>
   <other><xsl:value-of select="."/></other><xsl:text>
</xsl:text>
   </xsl:non-matching-substring>

   <xsl:matching-substring>
     <span><xsl:value-of select="."/></span>
   </xsl:matching-substring>
 </xsl:analyze-string>

Doing just what was requested,
even escaping the quotes, single and double,
to produce

<other>  Test url string:  '</other>
<span>http://www.yahoo.com/</span><other>'  and one more url "</other>
<span>http://www.yahoo.com/</span><other>"</other>


Thanks David. 
  I guessed I'd missed something :-)

regards DaveP

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