Using XPath function fn:replace from XSLT
Solution 1
XPath 2.0 has a replace function that you can use with any XSLT 2.0 processor like Saxon 9 or AltovaXML tools or Gestalt. You seem to try to use the function with an XSLT 1.0 processor, that is not going to work. In case you are restricted to an XSLT 1.0 processor you will need to implement the replacement with a named recursive template or with the help of an extension.
However note that even with XSLT 2.0 your attempt to use replace seems wrong as you will produce a text node with a 'p' tag markup while I assume you want to create a 'p' element node in the result. So even with XSLT 2.0 using analyze-string instead of replace is more likely to get you the result you want.
Solution 2
By bumping the version attribute of <xsl:stylesheet> to 2.0 and using
<xsl:value-of select="replace(description, '\n', '<p/>')" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
I was able to make the replace work.
larsmoa
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I'm trying to use XSLT to convert a simple XML schema to HTML and planned to use
fn:replaceto replace returns (\n) with<p>;. However, I can't figure out how to use this function properly.A simplified version of the XSLT I'm using reads:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:fn="http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions"> <xsl:template match="/root"> <html> <body> <!-- Replace \n with <p> --> <xsl:value-of select="fn:replace(value, '\n', '<p>')" /> </body> </html> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet>And the input to this XLST is e.g.:
<?xml version="1.0"?> <root> <value><![CDATA[ Hello world! ]]></value> </root>The conversion fails on
fn:replacewith an NoSuchMethodException. If I change the replace statement to<xsl:value-of select="fn:replace('somestring', '\n', '<p>')" />I get an IllegalArgumentException. How do I use
fn:replaceto achieve what I want?I'm using Butterfly XML Editor to test the XSLT.