xml - How to iterate over IDREFS values in XSLT 1.0? -

i have xml uses idrefs field. need extract id put in own element.

here's basic structure think need don't know use in select functions.

<xsl:template match="node_with_idrefs_field">    <xsl:for-each select="each id in @idrefsfield">       <xsl:element name="newelement">         <xsl:attribute name="ref"><xsl:value-of select="the idref"/></xsl:attribute>       </xsl:element>    </xsl:for-each>    <!-- keep rest of content -->    <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/> </xsl:template> 

so node

<node_with_idrefs_field idrefsfield="id1 id2"/>

the result be

<node_with_idrefs_field>   <newelement ref="id1"/>   <newelement ref="id2"/> </node_with_idrefs_field> 

thanks help.

you need tokenize value of idrefsfield attribute. xslt 1.0 has no native tokenize() function, need call recursive named template you:

<xsl:template match="node_with_idrefs_field">     <xsl:copy>         <xsl:call-template name="tokenize">             <xsl:with-param name="text" select="@idrefsfield"/>         </xsl:call-template>     </xsl:copy> </xsl:template>  <xsl:template name="tokenize">     <xsl:param name="text"/>     <xsl:param name="delimiter" select="' '"/>     <xsl:variable name="token" select="substring-before(concat($text, $delimiter), $delimiter)" />         <xsl:if test="$token">             <newelement ref="{$token}"/>         </xsl:if>         <xsl:if test="contains($text, $delimiter)">             <!-- recursive call -->             <xsl:call-template name="tokenize">                 <xsl:with-param name="text" select="substring-after($text, $delimiter)"/>             </xsl:call-template>         </xsl:if> </xsl:template> 

alternatively, if processor supports it, use exslt str:tokenize() extension function.