I need to be able to find the last occurrence of a character within an element.
For example:
<mediaurl>http://www.blah.com/path/to/file/media.jpg</mediaurl>
If I try to locate it through using substring-before(mediaurl, '.')
and substring-after(mediaurl, '.')
then it will, of course, match on the first dot.
How would I get the file extension? Essentially, I need to get the file name and the extension from a path like this, but I am quite stumped as to how to do it using XSLT.
The following is an example of a template that would produce the required output in XSLT 1.0:
<xsl:template name="getExtension">
<xsl:param name="filename"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="contains($filename, '.')">
<xsl:call-template name="getExtension">
<xsl:with-param name="filename" select="substring-after($filename, '.')"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:value-of select="$filename"/>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:call-template name="getExtension">
<xsl:with-param name="filename" select="'http://www.blah.com/path/to/file/media.jpg'"/>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:template>
If you're using XSLT 2.0, it's easy:
<xsl:variable name="extension" select="tokenize($filename, '\.')[last()]"/>
If you're not, it's a bit harder. There's a good example from the O'Reilly XSLT Cookbook. Search for "Tokenizing a String."
I believe there's also an EXSLT function, if you have that available.
How about tokenize with "/" and take the last element from the array ?
Example: tokenize("XPath is fun", "\s+")
Result: ("XPath", "is", "fun")
Was an XSLT fiddler sometime back... lost touch now. But HTH
For reference, this problem is usually called "substring-after-last" in XSLT.