Re: [xsl] String Manipulation

[Steve Ball <Steve dot Ball at zveno dot com>]

Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
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> I have an XSLT stylesheet that's taking information from an external
> file. That file has a structure similar to the following:
>
> <category>
>   <category_name>About Us</category_name>
> </category>
>
> I need to use this category_name in my html, but not like that. More
> specifically, I need to take either take out that space and have
> AboutUs, or just use the first word, About. It also needs to be set
> up so that if category_name is just one word, it will be preserved.
A simple translate() function call can be used to remove all
whitespace, eg. translate(category_name, " 	
", '').

If you need to do fancier manipulations then the XSLT Standard
Library, http://xsltsl.sourceforge.net/ has some useful templates,
like a CamelCase operation.

HTHs,
Steve Ball

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