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vignesh
vignesh

Reputation: 1599

Need to implement array in xslt

I want to implement array like structure.The prototype of my need is

<xsl:variable name="alphabets">abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz</xsl:variable>

When i give input as 4, i should get 'd'. How to implement this..please help me.. Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 1

Views: 771

Answers (2)

Michael Kay
Michael Kay

Reputation: 163262

XSLT 2.0 supports sequences, which allow you to do

<xsl:variable name="alphabet" select="'a', 'b', 'c', ...."/>
<xsl:value-of select="$alphabet[4]"/>

In XSLT 1.0, for an "array of characters" as in your example, use a string. For more complex structures, use an XML element with child elements.

Upvotes: 2

Flack
Flack

Reputation: 5892

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
    <xsl:output method="text"/>

    <xsl:variable name="alphabets" select="'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'"/>
    <xsl:param name="vAlphIndex" select="4"/>

    <xsl:template match="/*">
        <xsl:value-of select="substring($alphabets, $vAlphIndex, 1)"/>
    </xsl:template>        
</xsl:stylesheet>

Result will be:

d

Upvotes: 2

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