Re: Searching for individual characters within an attribute?

If you are using XSLT 1.0, you can use the 'contains' function as
defined in the XPath spec section 4.2.

 Steve

"Araquel, Ed E." wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to do this?
> 
> For example
> 
> <nm>
>         <G V="Ed" CLAS="[B R C]"/>
>         <G V="B" CLAS="[B R I]"/>
>         <F V="Araquel" CLAS="[B R C]"/>
> </nm>
> 
> I would like to be able to pick out that a G element contains a middle
> initial of a person's name. This is done by looking at the CLAS attribute
> and finding an I in there. The other characters within CLAS can be a whole
> range of things which means I can't just search for a whole string like "[B
> R I]".
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Ed
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