Mitch,
Thanks, This looks interesting.

Mike Ferrando
Washington, DC

--- Mitch Amiano <mitch.amiano@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Do you want to retain the <I> and/or other elements which may 
> be present in the input XML when you tag the year with <UNITDATE>?
> 
> You could loop over the children of <FLD> and parse only the last 
> string if it ends in a numeric year as expected, copying other
> nodes
> straight through if not. 
> 
> Does this do what you need? 
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="1.0">
> 
> <xsl:template match="/Books">
>    <xsl:copy>
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>    </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="FLD">
>    <xsl:copy>
>       <xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>
>       <xsl:for-each select="node()|text()">
>          <xsl:choose>
>          <xsl:when test="node()">
>             <xsl:copy>
>                <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>             </xsl:copy>
>          </xsl:when>
>          <xsl:when test="position() != last()">
>                <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>          </xsl:when>
>          <xsl:when test="string-length(normalize-space()) &gt; 5">
>             <xsl:variable name="laststring"
> select="normalize-space()"/>
>             <xsl:variable name="yearstring" select="substring(
> $laststring, string-length($laststring)-4, 4)"/>
>             <xsl:choose>
>             <xsl:when test="translate( $yearstring, '0123456789',
> '0123456789') = $yearstring">
>          <xsl:message>Translate worked: '<xsl:value-of
> select="$yearstring"/>'</xsl:message>
>                <xsl:value-of select="substring( $laststring, 1,
> string-length($laststring)-5)"/>
>                <UNITDATE>
>                <xsl:value-of select="$yearstring"/>
>                </UNITDATE>
>                <xsl:text>.</xsl:text>
>             </xsl:when>
>             </xsl:choose>
>          </xsl:when>
>          <xsl:otherwise>
>                <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>          </xsl:otherwise>
>          </xsl:choose>
>       </xsl:for-each>
>    </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="*">
>    <xsl:copy>
>          <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/>
>    </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
>             
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> 
> Mike Ferrando wrote:
> 
> >Friends,
> >I have been holding off on this question, but I find myself
> >confronting it more and more. I have not really figured out how to
> >get around it. So I have instead tagged the string I wanted to
> split
> >when the string is in a node with children.
> >
> >What I would like is to split a string, but then be able to either
> >replace the children as nodes, or to replace the coded string that
> I
> >split off.
> >
> >I have created a template to capture the last part of each string
> and
> >render it. However, I cannot figure out how to rebuild the rest of
> >the string with its original children, nor how to replace the
> string
> >I have now captured and coded.
> >
> >XML:
> >
> >Calvin, John. /The Bondage and Liberation of the Will/.
> >Baker Books, Inc., 1996.
> >Deissmann, Adolf. /Light from the Ancient East/. George A.
> >Doran, Co., 1927.
> >Lightfoot, J. B. /Notes on the 1^st  four Epistles of
> >Saint Paul./ Hendrikson Publishers, Inc., 1995.
> >
> >
> >My output:
> >
> >Calvin, John. The Bondage and Liberation of the Will. Baker
> >Books, Inc., 1996.
> >Deissmann, Adolf. Light from the Ancient East. George A. Doran,
> >Co., 1927.
> >Lightfoot, J. B. Notes on the 1st four Epistles of Saint Paul.
> >Hendrikson Publishers, Inc., 1995.
> >
> >
> >This example is rather simplified, but the need is still the same.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Mike Ferrando
> >Washington, DC
> >
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