Hi Graydon,
> $menuMatch gets stripped out of the Word because it's added by processing,
> rather than being present in the source file which generates the other half
> of the compare. (It's currently U+1405, ᐅ, though I devoutly hope this
> doesn't matter!)
You’ll need to remove the single quotes from $menuMatch (it yields
'ᐅ'). Apart from that, $stringTidy can possibly be simplified:
let $menuMatch := doc($varDevsDocSource)
/descendant::xsl:variable[@name eq 'menucascadeSeparator']
/@select
=> replace(''', '')
let $stringTidy := function($in) {
$in
=> string-join(' ')
=> replace($menuMatch, '')
=> normalize-space()
=> replace(' ([,\.;:])', '$1')
}
Cheers,
Christian
On 2/6/21, Graydon Saunders <graydon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello --
>
> So as part of building tests, I'm regularizing the text contents of some
> Word documents into single strings. (Which makes it relatively easy to
> make sure no words have gotten lost or changed order when compared to other
> stages of the process.)
>
> Regularization is a tactful way to put this particular atrocity:
>
> let $stringTidy as function(xs:string+) as xs:string := function($in as
> xs:string+) as xs:string {$in => string-join(' ') =>
> replace(xquery:eval($menuMatch),'') => replace('
',' ') =>
> replace('	',' ') => replace('
',' ') =>
> replace('\p{Zs}',' ') => replace(' +',' ') =>
> replace(' ([,\.;:])','$1') => replace('^ ','') =>
> replace(' $','')}
>
> $menuMatch gets stripped out of the Word because it's added by processing,
> rather than being present in the source file which generates the other half
> of the compare. (It's currently U+1405, ᐅ, though I devoutly hope this
> doesn't matter!) It gets read from an XSL source document, which I've
> included in minimal form, along with some sample data and a minimal-ish
> query.
>
> If I use $menuMatch in the replace, it doesn't work, in the sense that the
> ᐅ character is NOT removed from the string. If I xquery:eval() it, as
> here, the replace does work to remove the ᐅ from the string. I don't
> expect to need xquery:eval to use a variable as the second argument of
> replace(). Am I wrong? Has the pile of arrow operators exceeded the
> bounds of reason?
>
> Thanks!
> Graydon
>
