<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>dirname</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../reference.css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.78.1"><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="DocBook XSL Stylesheets: Reference Documentation"><link rel="up" href="relativeuri.html" title="Relative URI Functions"><link rel="prev" href="resolve.path.html" title="resolve.path"><link rel="next" href="../common/index.html" title="Part 2. Common Template Reference"><link rel="copyright" href="copyright.html" title="License"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">dirname</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="resolve.path.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Relative URI Functions</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../common/index.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="refentry"><a name="dirname"></a><div class="titlepage"></div> <div class="refnamediv"><h2>dirname</h2><p> dirname — Return directory part of a path </p></div> <div class="refsect1"><a name="idp9637376"></a><h2>Description</h2> <p>This function returns the directory part of a path.</p> <a name="dirname.frag"></a><pre class="programlisting"> <xsl:template name="dirname"> <xsl:param name="filename" select="''"></xsl:param> <xsl:if test="contains($filename, '/')"> <xsl:value-of select="substring-before($filename, '/')"></xsl:value-of> <xsl:text>/</xsl:text> <xsl:call-template name="dirname"> <xsl:with-param name="filename" select="substring-after($filename, '/')"></xsl:with-param> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:if> </xsl:template> </pre> </div> </div><div class="navfooter"><hr><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="resolve.path.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="relativeuri.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="../common/index.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">resolve.path </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Part 2. Common Template Reference</td></tr></table></div></body></html>