Re: XSLT Stylesheet test for special character

From: nico <ndebeiss@g...>
To: Jack Bush <netbeansfan@y...>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:08:07 +0100

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Hello,

( 4 ) <xsl:value-of select="ns:strong"/>

does not do anything, except dumping the text content of ns:strong into the output. If you want to use that value, you have to set a variable with that, like :
<xsl:variable name="value" select="ns:strong/text()"/>

Try that with a XSLT debugger, see what you have in that variable, and then you can try something like :

<xsl:when test="contains($value, 'Firstname:')">

Be aware that if you do text() when current node is <ns:p> (you previously did <xsl:for-each select="/ns:html/ns:body/ns:div[@id='content']/ns:p">), you obtain the concatenation of recursively applying text() on all the children node of <ns:p> so you will have white spaces, content of markup <a>, etc...

Use a debugger ! (Oxygen has a great one)

Regards
Nico
http://debeissat.nicolas.free.fr/

2009/1/22 Jack Bush <netbeansfan@y...>

Hi Bjoern,

Neither did string(.) = 'Firstname:' or text() = 'Firstname:' work hence it branched to the otherwise option instead.

Thanks for trying anyway,

Jack

From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@g...>
To: Jack Bush <netbeansfan@y...>
Cc: xml-dev@l...
Sent: Wednesday, 21 January, 2009 1:31:09 PM
Subject: Re: XSLT Stylesheet test for special character

* Jack Bush wrote:
><strong>Firstname:</strong>

>( 4 ) <xsl:value-of select="ns:strong"/>
>( 5 ) <xsl:choose>
>( 6 ) <xsl:when test="Firstname:">

>The error message has something like: Invalid QName on line 6 of stylesheet......

Your test looks for a <Firstname:> child element, which cannot exist.
You have to compare the string value of the strong element to the string
'Firstname:', e.g. using

string(.) = 'Firstname:'

or

text() = 'Firstname:'

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Conditional-Processing-with-xsl:choose
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#dt-expression
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#NT-Expr
http://www..w3.org/TR/xpath#node-tests
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- Re: XSLT Stylesheet test for special character
  - From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@g...>
- Re: XSLT Stylesheet test for special character
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