Re: [docbook-apps] xsl: extract the first word

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

Sam Steingold wrote:
> I am trying to get something like
>   (substring X 0 (position #\Space X))
> i.e., the first word of the string.
> if there are no spaces, I want the whole of X (in that case POSITION
> returns NIL and I get what I want).
> 
> I tried:
> 
> {substring-before(normalize-space(.),' ')}
> unfortunately, this returns "" (empty string) when there is no spaces in
> the string.

Try this:

substring-before(concat(normalize-space(.), ' '),' ')

by adding space at the end of string, you can be sure that there always 
will be at least one space.

				Jirka

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