Re: Looping through attributes..

On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM wrote:

> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Okay, I'm looping through attributes.  Now I need to determine if the
> name
> > of an attribute starts with a particular text expression.  I have the
> > following (and it doesn't work):
> >
> > <xsl:for-each select="@*">
> > <xsl:if test="starts-with(@,'S')">
> > ...
> > </xsl:if>
> > </xsl:for-each>
> >
> > Am I close???
> 
> Yes:
> 
>    <xsl:for-each select="@*">
>    <xsl:if test="starts-with(.,'S')">
>    ...
>    </xsl:if>
>    </xsl:for-each>
> 
> or even:
> 
>    <xsl:for-each select="@*[starts-with(.,'S')]">
>    ...
>    </xsl:for-each>

whoa -- i just noticed that the original poster asked to select
those attributes whose *names* started with 'S', not whose values
started with 'S'.

in case that's what he wanted, just use "starts-with(name(.), 'S')"
instead.  i think ...

rday


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