RE: text() pattern matching

I looked into the XPath spec. and realized this can be easily
solved using the substring function.

- Earl

I have having trouble with text that has
carriage returns within it and doing a match
on those values. I want to do the following:

xml file:

<docRoot>
 <restaurant>
  <name>Johns Great Restaurant
  </name>
  <review>great
  </review>
 </restaurant>
</docRoot>

xsl file:

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/XSL/Transform/1.0"
                xmlns:xt="http://www.jclark.com/xt"
                extension-element-prefixes="xt">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:template match="//restaurant">
 <restaurantReviews>
  <restaurantName> <xsl:value-of select="name"/> </restaurantName>
 <xsl:element name="opinion">
  <xsl:variable name="myOpinionValue">
   <xsl:value-of select="review"/>
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test='$myOpinionValue="excellent"'>5</xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test='$myOpinionValue="great"'>4</xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test='$myOpinionValue="good"'>3</xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test='$myOpinionValue="ok"'>2</xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>1</xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
 </xsl:element>
 </restaurantReviews>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Yet the carriage return/linefeed doesn't allow the match of myOpinionValue
to take place. What is the pattern match required here to try and get the
best value.

Thanks,

Earl

Earl Bingham
B-Bop Associates Inc.
2 North First Street
San Jose, CA 95113
Voice: (408) 993-2140
FAX: (408) 993-2141
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