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Posted: **Mon Dec 11, 2006 5:35 pm**

I have some text I'd like to format, and need to use regex + xslt 2.0 do do it.
What I have is a list of items in the following format:
"xxxxxx\xxxxx\xxxxxxx\xxxx\abcd.java"

I need to remove everything except "abcd".
I'm a complete Regex novice, and even got my hands on a copy of Regex Buddy to help me out, but apparently the Regex implementation in XSLT does not quite implement the full PERL standard.

Can anyone help me out?

Posted: **Thu Dec 14, 2006 6:19 pm**

Hello,

You should use the xsl:analyze-string element. Look at the regex attribute. The output of the following stylesheet:

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<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0">

    <xsl:template match="/">

        <xsl:variable name="text" select="'xxxxxx\xxxxx\xxxxxxx\xxxx\abcd.java'"/>

        <xsl:analyze-string select="$text" regex="(.*)\\(.*).java">

            <xsl:matching-substring>

                <javaClass name="{regex-group(2)}"/>

            </xsl:matching-substring>

        </xsl:analyze-string>

    </xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

is

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<javaClass name="abcd"/>

You can read about matching a regex in XSLT 2.0 here.

Regards,
Sorin

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Regex + XSLT 2.0 problem

Regex + XSLT 2.0 problem