XML Editor
Sign up for a WebBoard account Sign Up Keyword Search Search More Options... Options
search
Chat Rooms Chat Help Help News News Log in to WebBoard Log in Not Logged in
Home » Boards » Stylus Studio Developer Network » XSLT Help and Discussion » String in a range
Conferences Close Tree View
+ Stylus Studio Feature Requests (1123)
+ Stylus Studio Technical Forum (13809)
+ Website Feedback (243)
- XSLT Help and Discussion (7447)
-> + XSLT Path help (3)
-> + how to sort, dates in xsl ? (3)
-> + Naming elements (3)
-> + XSL IF Statement (2)
-> + XSLT Help Needed (4)
-> + Character Increment (4)
-> - concat function not working wi... (1)
-> + XSLT only namespace attribute ... (2)
-> - using uri within RSS enclosure... (1)
-> + Transforming Data With XSLT (3)
-> + Validate XPath on variable (8)
-> - flatten xml structure then sor... (1)
-> + SYNTAX not working (2)
-> + Looping through xml document (3)
-> + can i modify the xml data in X... (2)
-> + can i modify the xml data in X... (2)
-> + regex (2)
-> + xslt document and web services... (2)
-> + looping question (2)
-> + XML to Excel Conversion using ... (4)
-> + Compare (2)
-> + problem in loadxml function (2)
-> + does IE support script in xsl (2)
-> + converting Time format (2)
-> + Single Message split into Mult... (5)
-> + xml template design (2)
-> + String to array (2)
-> + Page Break with XSL-FO (4)
-> + Need help Translating string (2)
-> + Transforming input xml paramet... (3)
-> + How to transform node from inc... (2)
-> + XSL:FO Marker Question (2)
-> + trim after character...? (2)
-> + Convernting CSS + xsl to XSL:F... (2)
-> + save external image in xml/xsl (3)
-> + Table of Contents (2)
-> + Problem with select expression (2)
-> + Slow for-each select (7)
-> + Restructuring XML (2)
-> + Coloring xml output (3)
-> + Looping through xsl based on a... (5)
-> + Where is the wizard? (3)
-> + Save XML thru href (2)
-> + existing xslt, source and dest... (5)
-> + spliting xml files by certain ... (8)
-> + checking condition and writing... (2)
-> + how to insert un return in the... (2)
-> - String in a range (5)
-> ->String in a range
-> ->String in a range
-> ->String in a range
-> ->String in a range
-> + To identify the right edition (4)
-> + Flow Control Feature (2)
-> + calling nested external functi... (3)
-> + Replacing commas with a blank (6)
-> + Grouping very urgent . (2)
-> + xsl node number (3)
-> + Wordml intelligence (6)
-> + Preview and backmapping for wo... (5)
-> + XSLT - find line numbers of di... (2)
-> + The last five bytes of a varia... (7)
-> + simple problem but i'm a bit t... (3)
-> + H plz help me (2)
-> + XSLT : Very Urgent Requirement (7)
-> + comparing two xml files (3)
-> + Support for xsl created from w... (4)
-> + Wildcard Param (3)
-> + XSLT OutOfMemoryError (3)
-> + How can I output the filename ... (7)
-> + How do I strip out a comma ast... (8)
-> + xslt current-dateTime() not re... (2)
-> + Exceed the maximum recursion d... (8)
-> + Saxon9 "java.net.ConnectExcept... (2)
-> - Help Required (1)
-> + XSLT Help to get value from Up... (2)
-> + Date Functions (5)
-> + Need to unescape < and > (2)
-> + No Topic (2)
-> + Problem with handling multiple... (3)
-> + Question XPath expression (dis... (2)
-> + New user, basic question (2)
-> + Serializing XML to a string wi... (2)
-> + Node already has a control li... (2)
-> + Trying to access the position ... (5)
-> + XSLT Help (2)
-> + XSLT, Microsoft Access, and re... (4)
-> + saxon:assign usage problem. (5)
-> + Help with XSLT mapping require... (4)
-> + Muenchian Grouping problem (6)
-> + Automatic postprocessing (2)
-> + Problem Setting Variable (3)
-> - Problem Setting Variable (1)
-> + Looping question (14)
-> + Attribute Centeric XML from Re... (2)
-> + How do I do this ? (2)
-> + Accessing an attribute based o... (3)
-> + help needed - using saxon thro... (2)
-> + Grouping Problem still (6)
-> + Use XSL-FO to create tables fr... (6)
-> + taking out a child and (6)
-> + Yet another problem (3)
-> + using XSL-FO to convert PDF (4)
-> + Preventing namespace declarati... (2)
-- Previous [481-500] [501-520] [521-540] Next
+ XQuery Help and Discussion (1861)
+ Stylus Studio FAQs (159)
+ Stylus Studio Code Samples & Utilities (361)
+ Stylus Studio Announcements (113)
Topic  
Postnext
roberto azzimontiSubject: String in a range
Author: roberto azzimonti
Date: 03 Jun 2008 12:42 PM
Originally Posted: 03 Jun 2008 08:58 AM
hi all,

what's the best practice to check if a string is in a given range of possible values (i.e.: nin=10 max=zzzz)?

I'm currently using a series of calls to the following template:
However it doesn't give us the "natural" comparison result i.e. "10" is less than "5", we want "10" greater than "5".

thanks

<xsl:template name="stringCompare">
<xsl:param name="str1"/>
<xsl:param name="str2"/>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="str1=str2">
<xsl:text> equal </xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:variable name="thePair">
<xsl:element name="str1">
<xsl:value-of select="$str1"/>
</xsl:element>
<xsl:element name="str2">
<xsl:value-of select="$str2"/>
</xsl:element>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="sortedPair">
<xsl:for-each select="msxsl:node-set($thePair)/*">
<xsl:sort select="."/>
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:choose>
<xsl:when test="$str1 = msxsl:node-set($sortedPair)/*[1]">
<xsl:text> less than </xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:text> greater than </xsl:text>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:otherwise>
</xsl:choose>
</xsl:template>
Postnext
James DurningSubject: String in a range
Author: James Durning
Date: 03 Jun 2008 01:53 PM
Originally Posted: 03 Jun 2008 01:52 PM
If you want to force it to be a string, try concatenating the same string to the front of both of them before comparing, eg. add a "a" in front.
Postnext
roberto azzimontiSubject: String in a range
Author: roberto azzimonti
Date: 03 Jun 2008 02:05 PM
I think we need to make them right justified pattern with spaces or some common char.
'000005' and '000010' this will work.
'a5' and 'a10' will give me the same wrong result. 'a10' is still less than 'a5'.

I was hoping to find some already made functions especially using the schemas-microsoft-com estension.

thanks
Postnext
James DurningSubject: String in a range
Author: James Durning
Date: 09 Jun 2008 01:33 PM
Originally Posted: 09 Jun 2008 01:32 PM
Sorry, I misinterpreted and was solving for the reverse problem.
Have you noticed that your test uses equals, as opposed to &lt;

Otherwise, cast each value to a number.
<xsl:variable name="num1">
<xsl:number value="$str1"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="num2">
<xsl:number value="msxsl:node-set($sortedPair)/*[1]"/>
</xsl:variable>

<xsl:when test="$num1 = $num2">
<xsl:text>equals</xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:when test="$num1 &lt; $num2">
<xsl:text>less than</xsl:text>
</xsl:when>
<xsl:otherwise>
<xsl:text>greater than</xsl:text>
</xsl:otherwise>
Posttop
roberto azzimontiSubject: String in a range
Author: roberto azzimonti
Date: 09 Jun 2008 01:55 PM
I didn't realize that, thank you James.
   
Download A Free Trial of Stylus Studio 6 XML Professional Edition Today! Powered by Stylus Studio, the world's leading XML IDE for XML, XSLT, XQuery, XML Schema, DTD, XPath, WSDL, XHTML, SQL/XML, and XML Mapping!  
go

Log In Options

Site Map | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use | Trademarks
Stylus Scoop XML Newsletter:
W3C Member
Stylus Studio® and DataDirect XQuery ™are from DataDirect Technologies, is a registered trademark of Progress Software Corporation, in the U.S. and other countries. © 2004-2011 All Rights Reserved.