string parsing

[rnv]

Hi,it must be simple but I cannot get it.. hope some one can help. I have a complete file path. from it i need to get the file name.e.g., c:\data\xxx\filename.docfrom above string I need to get filename. which string function(s) allows me to get it?I thought of using last-index-of(..) but it does not exist in xslt. will appreciate your help. with regards,rnv

[Martin Honnen]

Well the current version of XSLT and XPath is the version 2.0 so with that version respectively if you use an XSLT 2.0 processor you can do e.g.

<xsl:variable name="path">c:\data\xxx\filename.doc</xsl:variable><xsl:variable name="file-name" select="tokenize($path, "\\")[last()]"/>

That way the variable "file-name" is of type string with the value "filename.doc".With an XSLT 1.0 processor you will need to check whether an extension like http://www.exslt.org/str/functions/tokenize/index.html is supported or you can make use of callable templates like in http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/N7240.html#d10127e349.

[rnv]

Thank you very much...