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Re: Re: Muenchian method, and keys 'n stuff
- From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev at yahoo dot com>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:08:35 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: [xsl] Re: Re: Muenchian method, and keys 'n stuff
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Re: Muenchian method, and keys 'n stuff
From: Jeni Tennison <jeni at jenitennison dot com>
> Wendell wrote:
> > Another way would be to hardcode your alphabet as a set of nodes in
> > your stylesheet:
>
> It's interesting that you can build a sequence of integers in XPath
> 2.0 with the 'to' operator, but not a sequence of characters. For
this
> situation, it would be really nice to be able to do:
>
> <xsl:for-each select="'a' to 'z'">
> ...
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> I suppose the other possibility would be tokenize function so you
> could do:
>
> <xsl:for-each select="tokenize('abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', '')">
> ...
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> to achieve the same thing (although a little more laboriously).
What about the following:
for $a in (for $i in (1 to string-length($alphabet))
return substring($alphabet,1,1)
)
return (doSomething)
Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
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