Re: xsl: extract the first word

[Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>]

> * Jirka Kosek <wvexn@xbfrx.pm> [2005-10-31 22:44:43 +0100]:
>
> 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.

indeed, it works, thanks!

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