XSLT 2.0 and XQuery both provide the ability to write your own functions,
and as DC showed, this one can be written as a simple composition of two
functions in the core library. The WG has been trying to keep the number of
functions down to a minimum, and anything that can be constructed so easily
from existing functions tends to get short shrift. (With a few exceptions
like exists() and empty(), of course...)

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arian Hojat [mailto:arianhojat2000@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 28 July 2005 20:25
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  is there a String indexOf() function in Xpath?
> 
> hey I searched around and I couldn't find an xpath
> function to return what the index of a strings'
> character/substring is located.
> 
> Want to do something like this...
> substring($titleText, 
> indexOf($titleText, ' findThisTextsIndex ')+5 , 
> indexOf($titleText, 'toHere') )
> 
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