Re: Testing for presence of alphabetical characters

> Ah -- testing for presence of alphabetical characters -- in XPath 1.0,
>
> not(string-length($cont) = string-length(translate($cont,$alpha,''))

or

contains(translate($cont, $alpha, 'x'), 'x')

I've heard that string-length() can get expensive because of
multi-byte characters, although I would've thought translate()
sufferered from the same problem...

Cheers,
Wendell

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