Re: Storing an XPath fragment in a variable

On 7/13/05, Joris Gillis <roac@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> rather use "self::RED" instead of "name() = 'GREEN'"
Yeah, thats alot cleaner -- thanks.

> or, another approach, store the strings 'RED' , 'GREEN', etc in a variable
> or xml fragment and use 'contains(., $possiblevalues)' to test them all at
> once

this function returns true or false and takes only one string as an
argument -- I'm not sure how this would work in an xpath expression in
a for-each statement.  Can you give me an example?
I'm basically trying to do the pseudo T-SQL equivalent of:

SELECT Red, Green, Blue
FROM foo

XML:
------

<foo>
    <red>value</red>
    <green>value</green>
    <blue>value</blue>
    <brown>value</brown>
    <black>value</black>
</foo>

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> --
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