So, looks like the problem at hand can not be solved
without using extensions (which I can't)???

Abbas

--- David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>     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://[^ 
( )"']+">
> 
>    <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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