XSLT 1.0 : Iterate over characters in a string

Question

I need to iterate over the characters in a string to build an XML structure.

Currently, I am doing this :

Answer 1

An XSLT 1.0 Solution using FXSL

The FXSL library offers a number of generic functions for list processing. Almost all of them have an analog for operating on strings (regarding a string as a list of characters).

Here is an example using the str-foldl function/template:

This transformation calculates the sum of the characters in the string passed as the $pStr parameter and produces the correct result:

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And using the str-map template/function we have the following easy and short solution:

When applied on any XML file (not used), the wanted, correct result is produced:

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