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Keith Visco wrote: > > Roger, > > you are passing your first parameter as a String literal, instead of an > expression. > > try removing the quotes from './text()' and just use ./text() or just > text() since the "." (Identity) should be implicit in this case. > Thanks Keith. Using text() worked like a charm: <xsl:template match="location" > <xsl:if test="starts-with(text(),'ICAO')"> <location_ICAO> <xsl:apply-templates/> </location_ICAO> </xsl:if> <xsl:if test="starts-with(text(),'LatLon')"> <location_LatLon> <xsl:apply-templates/> </location_LatLon> </xsl:if> </xsl:template> /Roger > --Keith > > "Roger L. Costello" wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > I am having some trouble using XSLT's starts-with() string function. > > Below is a snippet of some XML: > > > > <location> > > ICAO: Boston > > </location> > > <location> > > LatLon: 74.31W, 106.5N > > </location> > > > > Note how the content of the <location> element either starts with ICAO > > or with LatLon. > > > > I would like to write a template rule for the <location> element > > that checks to see what its content starts with. If it starts with > > ICAO then it should do one thing. It is starts with LatLon it > > should do another thing. Here is my (failed) attempt at this template > > rule: > > > > <xsl:template match="location" > > > <xsl:if test="starts-with('./text()','ICAO')"> > > <location_ICAO> > > <xsl:apply-templates/> > > </location_ICAO> > > </xsl:if> > > <xsl:if test="starts-with('./text()','LatLon')"> > > <location_LatLon> > > <xsl:apply-templates/> > > </location_LatLon> > > </xsl:if> > > </xsl:template> > > > > When I run this through James Clark's XT processor I get no output > > for this template rule. What am I doing wrong? > > > > Also, I found that if I user the xsl:choose construct (rather than > > the sequence of xsl:if statements) I get an "invalid token" error > > message. Anyone know that that's all about? > > > > /Roger xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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