RE: How to select elements with value that starts with

>
> <data>
> 	<elem>a123</elem>
> 	<elem>a312</elem>
> 	<elem>b123</elem>
> 	<elem>c321</elem>
> <data>
>
> I would like to select only
>
> 	<elem>a123</elem>
> 	<elem>a312</elem>
>
> I tried
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="predmet[ starts-with(elem, 'a')]"/>
>
> but I got exception
>
> Exception in thread "main"
> javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Can not
> convert #BOOLEAN to a NodeList!
>

Your syntax is correct (though the element name predmet doesn't match your
data).

Perhaps your error was elsewhere?

Mike Kay
Software AG


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