Question

I need help writing regex to remove a word using XSLT.

I need to change the output of my XML file’s “detailpath” from:

/events/262/26207

…to simply:

262/26207

The XSL is:

<xsl:value-of select="detailpath"/>

How can I remove “/events/”?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The regex pattern would simply be '/events/'

You can use it in an XSLT 2.0 replace() function call:

<xsl:value-of select="replace(detailpath,'/events/','')"/>

function returns the xs:string that is
obtained by replacing each
non-overlapping substring of $input
that matches the given $pattern with
an occurrence of the $replacement
string.

You can optionally specify flags

fn:replace( $input     as xs:string?,
            $pattern   as xs:string,
            $replacement   as xs:string) as xs:string

fn:replace( $input     as xs:string?,
            $pattern   as xs:string,
            $replacement   as xs:string,
            $flags     as xs:string) as xs:string