XSL String manipulation

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June 19th, 2011, 08:04 PM

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XSL String manipulation

Hi,

I am a new to XSL programming. I have a requirement to add slash at every 4th character in a string. For example, a string value of 'abcdefghijklmn' to be translated to 'abcd/efgh/ijkl/mn'. Appreciate if someone help me out.

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June 20th, 2011, 04:42 AM

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What will you be using to run the XSLT? For instance, "my web browser" or "PHP's XSLTProcessor".

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June 20th, 2011, 10:27 AM

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xml for test

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
	<item>abcdefghijklm</item>
	<item>12345678901234</item>
</root>

xsl rekursion

Code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
	<xsl:output indent="yes" method="xml"/>
	<xsl:template match="/">
		<root>
			<xsl:apply-templates select="root"/>
		</root>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="root">
		<xsl:apply-templates select="item"/>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template match="item">
		<xsl:call-template name="allfour">
			<xsl:with-param name="content" select="."/>
		</xsl:call-template>
	</xsl:template>
	<xsl:template name="allfour">
		<xsl:param name="content"/>
		<xsl:param name="select" select="''"/>
		<xsl:choose>
			<xsl:when test="string-length($content) >4">
				<xsl:call-template name="allfour">
					<xsl:with-param name="content" select="substring($content,5)"/>
					<xsl:with-param name="select" select="concat($select,substring($content,1,4),'/')"/>
				</xsl:call-template>
			</xsl:when>
			<xsl:otherwise>
				<result>
					<xsl:value-of select="concat($select,substring($content,1))"/>
				</result>
			</xsl:otherwise>
		</xsl:choose>
	</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

result

Code:

<?xml version='1.0' ?>
<root>
  <result>abcd/efgh/ijkl/m</result>
  <result>1234/5678/9012/34</result>
</root>

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