XML/XSLT stylesheet/substring before
substring-before demo
File: Data.xml
<poem>
<verse>line 1</verse>
<verse>
line 2
</verse>
</poem>
File: Transform.xslt
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="no" />
<xsl:template match="verse">
<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(.,"dreary")" />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
substring-before() function
File: Data.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Transform.xslt" ?>
<neighbours>
<planet name="Venus">
<description>
description
</description>
<positionFromSun>2</positionFromSun>
<diameter> 12104 km (7505 miles)</diameter>
<moons> 0</moons>
<meanTemp> 482C (900F)</meanTemp>
<oneDay> 243.01 earth days</oneDay>
<oneYear> 224.7 earth days</oneYear>
</planet>
</neighbours>
File: Transform.xslt
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:import href="planetsToXHTML.xsl"/>
<xsl:output method="html" version="4.0" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="neighbours">
<html>
<head>
<title>Sorted planets</title>
<style type="text/css">
body { font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size:12px;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My sorted list of planets</h1>
<xsl:apply-templates>
<xsl:sort select="substring-before(meanTemp/text(), "C")" order="ascending" data-type="number"/>
</xsl:apply-templates>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Output:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Sorted planets</title><style type="text/css">
body { font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size:12px;}
</style></head>
<body>
<h1>My sorted list of planets</h1>
description
2
12104 km (7505 miles)
0
482C (900F)
243.01 earth days
224.7 earth days
</body>
</html>