RE: tokenize needed

> This is simply a vote for Issue 143 in Functions and Operators: a 
> tokenize function is badly needed in XSLT.
> 
> In particular: As far as I can see, there is no other way to 
> deal with 
> space delimited content (à la XML Schema list types) in the 
> absence of a schema.
> 
I agree we do need the ability to tokenize a string. I'm working on a
proposal for regular expression handling (it's now on its third iteration)
which will meet this requirement, although it might be a little heavyweight
for simple splitting of a space-delimited string. We could look at providing
a convenience function to make easy cases easy.

Michael Kay

Received on Friday, 24 May 2002 12:43:33 UTC