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----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Beach" <joelbeach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 1:02 AM Subject: Union of two node-sets not producing desired result (probable easy question ;-)) > Can anyone elighten me as to why the union of two sets shown below (marked > with ^^^^^) results in a node-set of only two elements? > > Both node sets are produced by the tokenize() extension function.......one > is a fixed string for now 'Multiple'. The other is a node set generated from > a text node in an XML document.... > The node sets generated by tokenize() seem to be fine, as I can use > xsl:for-each to loop through the node-set and print all the elements out. It > all looks good....The relevant fragment of the XML is shown below > > <Trial> > <TrialName>Do Multiple Trials work</TrialName> > </Trial> > > And the template contained in the XSL stylesheet is shown below.....clearly > the Union of > { 'Do', 'Multiple', 'Trials', 'Work' } and { 'Multiple' } should be give a > count of 4, yet I get a count of 2, and the elements contained in the union > are 'Do' and 'Multiple'. I feel stupid, but I can't find the problem in my > code, given that I'm pretty much a complete beginner at XSL. On another > note, what's the best way to case-insensitive unions? Convert strings to > upper case first? Is the best way to do this to use translate and use > variables which include all the characters in the alphabet? > > Thank, > > Joel > > <xsl:template match="Trial"> > <xsl:variable name="trialNameWords" > elect="xalan:tokenize( TrialName[text()], '- ' )"/> > <xsl:variable name="trialSearchWords" > elect="xalan:tokenize( 'Multiple', '- ' )"/> > > <xsl:if test="$trialSearchWords = $trialNameWords"> > <xsl:text>We have a Match!!!!!</xsl:text> > </xsl:if> > <br/> > > <xsl:value-of select="count( $trialSearchWords | $trialNameWords )"/> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > </xsl:template> > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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