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Subject: FW: Question about strings.
From: "Patel, Viral" <viral.patel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 09:06:31 -0600
letterlink
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to XSL and I have several questions - some of them might be
> really easy ones but I just want to confirm.
> 
> 1. Is it possible to compare two strings lexicographically in XSL/XPATH? I
> believe the answer is no. Is there a way I can achieve this?
> 
> 
> 2. I have listed the XML & XSL below.   In that the community name
> attribute could start with a alphabet, a number or any other character.
> Most of the community names are expected to start with alphabets.  In my
> output, if I have one or more community name starting with a certain
> alphabet (i.e. 'A') then I want to put a link (aka advance orgranizer) at
> the top of the page that would say 'A' and likewise for all the alphabets.
> Also since I have few communities starting with non-alphabets, I would
> want to put a link called Miscellaneous that would link to a page which
> would display all non-alphabetic characters.
> 
> How would I go about doing this?  And the those non-alphabetic characters
> are not fixed, they could vary depending on the XML file used.  If there
> was string comparison allowed then I could do something like @name<'a' or
> @name>'z'  for each node and that would give me all non-alphabetic
> characters.
> 
> Any ideas/help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> <record>
> 	<community name="101 South">
> 		... Some Information ...
> 	</community>
> 	<community name="**">
> 		... Some Information ...
> 	</community>
> 	<community name="Adams">
> 		... Some Information ...
> 	</community>
> 	<community name="Smith">
> 		... Some Information ...
> 	</community>
> 	... .... ....
> </record>
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="1.1" xmlns:lxslt="http://xml.apache.org/xslt">
> 
>       <xsl:template match="/">
> 	<xsl:apply-templates match="//community"/>
>       </xsl:template>
> 
> 	<xsl:template name="community">
> 		<xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'*')">
> 			<xsl:call-template
> name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity">
> 				<xsl:with-param
> name="letterLink">*</xsl:with-param>
> 			</xsl:call-template>
> 		</xsl:if>
> 		<xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'A')">
> 			<xsl:call-template
> name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity">
> 				<xsl:with-param
> name="letterLink">A</xsl:with-param>
> 			</xsl:call-template>
> 		</xsl:if>
> 		<xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'B')">
> 			<xsl:call-template
> name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity">
> 				<xsl:with-param
> name="letterLink">B</xsl:with-param>
> 			</xsl:call-template>
> 		</xsl:if>
> 		<xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'C')">
> 			<xsl:call-template
> name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity">
> 				<xsl:with-param
> name="letterLink">C</xsl:with-param>
> 			</xsl:call-template>
> 		</xsl:if>
> 		<xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'D')">
> 			<xsl:call-template
> name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity">
> 				<xsl:with-param
> name="letterLink">D</xsl:with-param>
> 			</xsl:call-template>
> 		</xsl:if>
> 	      .... AND SO ON ....
> 	</xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> V. Patel.
> 

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