XSLT 1.0 : Iterate over characters in a string
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I need to iterate over the characters in a string to build an XML structure.
Currently, I am doing this :
<xsl:template name="verticalize">
<xsl:param name="text">Some text</xsl:param>
<xsl:for-each select="tokenize(replace(replace($text,'(.)','$1\\n'),'\\n$',''),'\\n')">
<xsl:element name="para">
<xsl:value-of select="."/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
This produces something like :
<para>S</para>
<para>o</para>
<para>m</para>
<para>e</para>
<para> </para>
<para>t</para>
<para>e</para>
<para>x</para>
<para>t</para>
This works fine with Xpath 2.0. But I need to apply the same treatment in a XPath 1.0 environment, where the replace() method is not available.
Do you know a way to achieve this ?
