Hi Hussein, That is amazing! I didn't realize that it is possible to use all XPath functions within a <get>. That offers me a bunch of new possibilities.
Thanks, Roman > -----Original Message----- > From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:hussein at xmlmind.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 11:01 AM > To: Huditsch, Roman (LNG-VIE) > Cc: xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com > Subject: Re: [XXE] Getting the file name of the document > being edited without the drive letter > > Huditsch, Roman (LNG-VIE) wrote: > > > > Once again I have a very special requirement... > > Special requirements are our speciality. > > > > > I would need to pass the current file path ofthe document being > > edited, but witohout the drive letter on Windows. > > R:\Lieferungen\Legislations\Gesetze\verlinkt\2_waeg_v0.xml > > should become > > \Lieferungen\Legislations\Gesetze\verlinkt\2_waeg_v0.xml > > > > Is there some kind of a substring functionality somewhere? > > In a macro, use <get> or <set>. Example: > > <get expression="substring('%D', 3)" /> > > (3 because in XPath the index of first character is 1 and not 0.) > > See > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/xpath_get.html > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/macro_vars.html > http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#section-String-Functions > > > > > Or would I need to integrate an own java class for doing this? > > No, this is probably not needed. > >
