Subject: RE: reference sheet for XSLT 2.0?
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 14:56:55 -0400 (EDT)
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On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Michael Kay wrote:
> > i checked http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/ and, in the
> > list of functions on strings, i saw a number of string
> > functions but not one to simply reverse a string, which i
> > would have thought
> > would be fairly obvious.
> >
> How often does one need to reverse a string?
>
> It's easily done in XPath 2.0 as
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> string-join(
> for $i in string-length($in) to 1 return substring($in, $i, 1),
> "")
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> or using a recursive function if you find that more elegant.
this is a good point, i was just using that as an example. more
to the point, i guess i was curious about how much of the fairly
new "XSLT cookbook" from o'reilly would be unnecessary given the
new facilities in XSLT 2.0. thanks for the pointers.
rday
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