EXSLT - str:tokenize

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.