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functx:lines

Split a string into separate lines

Description

The functx:lines function splits a string into individual lines, using the carriage return and newline characters to indicate the end of a line.

Arguments and Return Type

XSLT Function Declaration

<xsl:function name="functx:lines" as="xs:string*"
              xmlns:functx="http://www.functx.com">
  <xsl:param name="arg" as="xs:string?"/>

  <xsl:sequence select="
   tokenize($arg, '(\r\n?|\n\r?)')
 "/>

</xsl:function>

Examples

<in-xml>a
value
on
many
lines</in-xml>

functx:lines('a value')

a value

functx:lines($in-xml)

('a',
'value',
'on',
'many',
'lines')

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