xslt: substring-before

Question

I have the folowing xml code:

<weather-code>14 3</weather-code>
<weather-code>12</weather-code>
<weather-code>7 3 78</weather-code>

Now i'd like to only grab the first number of each node to set a background image. So for each node i have the folowing xslt:

<xsl:attribute name="style">
  background-image:url('../icon_<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(weather-code, ' ')" />.png');
</xsl:attribute>

Problem is that substring before doesn't return anything when there's no space. Any easy way around this?

Answer 1

You can use xsl:when and contains:

<xsl:attribute name="style">
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="contains(weather-code, ' ')">
      background-image:url('../icon_<xsl:value-of select="substring-before(weather-code, ' ')" />.png');
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>background-image:url('../icon_<xsl:value-of select="weather-code" />.png');</xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:attribute>

Answer 2

You can make sure that there is always a space, maybe not the prettiest but at least it's compact :)

<xsl:value-of select="substring-before( concat( weather-code, ' ' ) , ' ' )" />