EXSLT - str:tokenize - Implementer Page

The str:tokenize function splits up a string and returns a node set of token elements, each containing one token from the string.

The first argument is the string to be tokenized. The second argument is a string consisting of a number of characters. Each character in this string is taken as a delimiting character. The string given by the first argument is split at any occurrence of any of these characters. For example:

str:tokenize('2001-06-03T11:40:23', '-T:')      
      

Gives the node set consisting of:

<token>2001</token>
<token>06</token>
<token>03</token>
<token>11</token>
<token>40</token>
<token>23</token>

If the second argument is omitted, the default is the string '	

 ' (i.e. whitespace characters). Thus:

str:tokenize('date math str')      
      

Gives the node set consisting of:

<token>date</token>
<token>math</token>
<token>str</token>

If the second argument is an empty string, the function returns a set of token elements, each of which holds a single character. Thus:

str:tokenize('foo', '')          
        

Gives the node set consisting of:

<token>f</token>
<token>o</token>
<token>o</token>

The template version of this function returns a result tree fragment consisting of a number of token elements.