Subject: Re: [xsl] Finding Any Occurrance From: "Bob Portnell" <simply.bobp@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 11:35:42 -0700 |
It does indeed help! Sorry I was unclear, where I was. $matcher is not containing a result tree fragment, near as my result document tells me ... value-of $matcher gives me the nice string I want to search against. (I'm in XSLT 2.0, as I ought to have said and didn't.)
It turns out my problem is actually about context. I'm inside a for-each loop at that point, with that loop's context pointing out into the outside document. I need to get myself back into the source document somehow. Ew. Am I going to have to explicitly call the document every time I want something from it?
Bob P simply.bobp@xxxxxxxxx
Hi Bob,
It'd be informative to know what you mean with "doesn't work". Do you mean that there's no match? Or do you mean that the result is different than from what you expected?
The expression //title will retrieve all the title nodes. Unless all these titles together match your $matcher, you will have a true match (and I think this depends on the XSLT version you use, because in XSLT 1, I think $matcher contains a result tree fragment, which will not match). If what you are after is that the text of the titles should be matched against $matcher, you may try the following:.
<xsl:if test="//title[. = $matcher]"> ... </xsl:if>
In which case the test will be true if at least one of the title tags contains the text in $matcher. Perhaps this is even better
<xsl:if test="//title[normalize-space(.) = normalize-space($matcher)]"> ... </xsl:if>
Hope this helps,
Cheers,
Abel Braaksma http://abelleba.metacarpus.com
Bob Portnell wrote: > (Another baby question, but at least it's on-topic) > > I have (successfully!) pulled some content from an outside file (and > hidden it in the variable $matcher). I now want to look through my > input file to see if that content is in any <title> child, anywhere, > so I know if it's worth carrying on processing for this content. But > > <xsl:if test="//title = $matcher"> > > doesn't work. What have I overlooked? > > (US correspondents, have a great holiday weekend!) > > Bob P > simply.bobp@xxxxxxxxx
Current Thread |
---|
|
<- Previous | Index | Next -> |
---|---|---|
Re: [xsl] Finding Any Occurrance, Abel Online | Thread | Re: [xsl] Finding Any Occurrance, Jay Bryant |
Re: [xsl] Finding Any Occurrance, Abel Online | Date | Re: [xsl] Getting from SVGs to PDF, Wendell Piez |
Month |