Re: No Duplicate Contain() is Allowed?

1. Your XML is not well-formed, look at:
 <publisher>Oreilly</publisher

2. Commenting out the last xsl:if does not make any difference when I
test with SAXON 9B.

3. The contains() function is for testing a string. But your xml
element contains mixed content that is both other elements and text
nodes.

It is not a good idea to mark up data as mixed content.

This is much better:
<book>
	<name>XSLT 2.0: From Beginning to Professional</book>
	<topic>XML</topic>
	<publisher>Wiley</publisher>
</book>

Cheers,
Jesper Tverskov


On 12/17/07, Alice Wei <ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear all:
>
>    For those of you who may know something about SQL or XQuery might
> be able to help me out.
>
> XML:
>      <bookshelf>
>      <book>XSLT 2.0: From Beginning to Professional
>        <topic>XML</topic>
>       <publisher>Wiley</publisher></book>
>      <book>XML in a Nutshell
>      <publisher>Oreilly</publisher</book>
>      <book>XSLT 2.0: Programmer's Reference
>      <topic>XML</topic>
>      <publisher>Wrox</publisher>
>      </book>
>      </bookshelf>
>
> XSLT:
>
> <xsl:template match="bookshelf">
>
>        <xsl:if test="contains(//book/*, 'XML')">
>            <xsl:apply-templates/>
>        </xsl:if>
>       <xsl:if test="contains(//topic/*, 'XML')">
>          <xsl:apply-templates/>
>      </xsl:if>
> </xsl:template>
>
>
> What happened is really weird. If I had commented out the 2nd <xsl:if>
> statement, it brings back one line without error. When I got to the 2nd
> one, it tells me this error: Description: A sequence of more than one
> item is not allowed as the first argument of contains() ("", "", ...)
>
> My document is obviously well-formed, can anyone please give me some
> suggestions on how to get rid of this error?
>
> Thanks to those who can help.
>
> Alice
>
>
> Alice Wei
> MIS 2008
> School of Library and Information Science
> Indiana University Bloomington
>
>


-- 
Jesper Tverskov

www.xmlkurser.dk
www.xmlplease.com