CODEWITHSUNDEEP
xsltxslt-2.0
user7918368
user7918368

Reputation: 5

Get position of specific word

I am new in XSLT and if it is possible to get the position of a specific word? For example, I have a data like this:

<Data>The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog!</Data>

I want to get the position of a "brown", "over", "dog" and "!". And, store it in different output name. Like the position of brown is <foo>3</foo>, position of over is <boo>6</boo>, dog <hop>9</hop> and ! <po_df>10</po_df>. Is it possible?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 146

Answers (1)

Martin Honnen
Martin Honnen

Reputation: 167516

If you were only looking for words you could use tokenize(., '\s+|\p{P}')

<xsl:template match="Data">
    <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:variable name="words" select="tokenize(., '\s+|\p{P}')"/>
        <xsl:for-each select="'brown', 'over', 'dog'">
            <matched item="{.}" at-pos="{index-of($words, .)}"/>
        </xsl:for-each>
    </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

which gives

<Data>
   <matched item="brown" at-pos="3"/>
   <matched item="over" at-pos="6"/>
   <matched item="dog" at-pos="9"/>
</Data>

so it has the right positions (I am not sure where the names of the elements you posted (like hop) are to be taken from so I have not tried to implement that.).

As you also want to identify a punctuation character I am not sure tokenize suffices and even with analyze-string it is not straight-forward to match and collect the position. Maybe someone else has a better idea.

Upvotes: 1

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