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Subject: Re: identifying series of numbers in text strings
From: Martin Honnen <Martin.Honnen@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:01:16 +0200

Joyce Celeste Chapman wrote:

Using XSL 1.0, is there a way I can search the contents of an element to find series of 4-digit numbers? Then if there are two sets of 4-digit numbers, I would like to select those values in order (I'll be outputting them somewhere else as a date span), if there is only one 4-digit set I'll need to output that a different way. Example of XML below. Thanks to all in advance for the help!
<date>23 July 2001-April 2006</date>
<date>July 1996</date>
<date>unknown</date>

Do you use an XSLT 1.0 processor that supports EXSLT? Then you could use http://www.exslt.org/regexp/functions/match/index.html. Firefox 3.0 has support for that match function. With IE and MSXML you can use the implementation provided at the exslt.org site.

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	Martin Honnen
	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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