Would need to extract the text after the single quotes.
E.g.:
<div>('show')</div>
The variables is this:
<xsl:variable name="showName" select="substring-before(substring-after(//x:div, '%28%27'), '%27%29')" />
The result is none, the encoding caracters.
I think it can not be used %28%27 and %27%29. This is correct?.
Thanks.
XSLT 1.0:
Just use:
<xsl:variable name="vshowName" select=
'substring-before(substring-after(/*, "'"), "'")'/>
Here is a complete transformation:
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:variable name="vshowName" select=
'substring-before(substring-after(/*, "'"), "'")'/>
<xsl:template match="/*">
<xsl:value-of select="$vshowName"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
When applied on the provided XML document:
<div>('show')</div>
the wanted, correct result is produced:
show
XSLT 2.0:
In XSLT 2.0 one can use either of the following two approaches:
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="text"/>
<xsl:variable name="vPattern">
^[^']*'([^']*)'.*$
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="vshowName1" select="replace(/*, $vPattern, '$1', 'x')"/>
<xsl:variable name="vshowName2" select=
'replace(/*, "^[^']*'([^']*)'.*$", "$1", "x")'/>
<xsl:template match="/*">
<xsl:value-of select="$vshowName2"/>
===============
<xsl:value-of select="$vshowName1"/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
When this transformation is applied on the same XML document (above), the evaluation of both XPath expressions produces the same result:
show
===============
show
Do note:
If you want with a single Xpath expression (making xsl:analyze-string unnecessary) to extract/process all substrings surrounded by quotes (where there is unlimited possible number of such substrings), see this answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/15402185/36305
Finally, using xsl:analyze-string:
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="/*">
<xsl:analyze-string select="." regex="'(.*?)'">
<xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:sequence select="regex-group(1)"/>
</xsl:matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
When this transformation is applied on the following XML document:
<div>('word1', 'word2', 'word3')</div>
the correct result is produced:
word1 word2 word3
This code (from another answer) is wrong:
<xsl:analyze-string select="//div" regex="'(.*)'">
<xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)"/>
</xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:non-matching-substring>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:non-matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>
When applied on the above XML document it produces:
(word1', 'word2', 'word3)
If you are familiar with regular expression you could also use <xsl:analyze-string>.
Extract content between the single quotes. The content is later referred using regex-group(1) ) :
<xsl:analyze-string select="//x:div" regex="'(.*)'">
<xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:value-of select="regex-group(1)"/>
</xsl:matching-substring>
<xsl:non-matching-substring>
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:non-matching-substring>
</xsl:analyze-string>
