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> 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. > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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