Re: select an element

Thanks, David. I tried what you said put the $word="\xE1"; and give
initial value for parameter in <xsl:param name="Kentry"
select="'\xE1'"/>. And made the line like this:   <xsl:for-each
select="/reportname/Entry[substring(ENTRY_FORM,1,$wordLength) =
substring($Kentry,1,$wordLength)]">. But it still doesn't work. It
really puzzled me. More help?

Thanks again!

Helen

On 5/17/05, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Your input contains the Unicode character with value E1 (a acute)
> so you need to set the paramter to that value. There is no point setting
> it to the string &#x00E1; and if you force that string to be of length 1
> using substring then it will just be &
>
> I don't know php but can't you just type the a acute directly, or does
> it have its own escape syntax in strings such as \00e1
>
> In fact 30 seconds in google suggests that you can't do arbitrary
> unicode
> but you could do \xe1 in this case.
>
> http://uk.php.net/types.string
>
> David
>
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