RE: String ends with ?, ! or not

XPath 2.0 has an ends-with() function, in XPath 1.0 you can do

substring($in, X) = $test

where X is the string-length of $in minus the string-length of $test.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pankaj Chaturvedi [mailto:pankaj.chaturvedi@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 29 April 2008 13:04
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:  String ends with ?, ! or not
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> Is there is way, we can test whether a string ENDS-WITH a ?, !.
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> <articletitle>Dynamics of the trade balance and the terms of 
> trade: The J&hyphen;curve&quest;</articletitle>
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> I am trying to test, whether the <articletitle> string ends 
> with &quest; (?) or not. Below is what I've tried to define 
> in my stylesheet (note that I've tested Unicode value for 
> &quest; as it gives error to define an external entity 
> &quest;, which I've done by declaring a ENTITY declaration in XML as
> <!ENTITY quest            "[#x0003F]" ><!--=question mark --> ).
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> <xsl:choose>
> 	<xsl:when test="./articletitle/contains(string(), '#x0003F')">
> 		 <char><xsl:text> </xsl:text></char>
> 	</xsl:when>
> 	<xsl:otherwise>
> 		 <char><xsl:text>, </xsl:text></char>
> 	</xsl:otherwise>
> </xsl:choose>
> 
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> Question: contains() function just whether string has '?' in 
> it or not, which means it will be true for strings like 
> "XXXXXXX The J&hyphen;curve&quest; YYYY", whereas I need to 
> check whether it ends with or not (Alas I do not know any 
> functions apart from starts-with()).
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> Any suggestions please in this regard.
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> Pankaj
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> Best,
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> Pankaj Chaturvedi
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