RE: newbie question about strings and XPath expression

Hi,

> Hello Jarno, thank you, it worked fine.
> I'm actually trying to extract the items of an enumeration in 
> an xhtml file to present 
> them as individual item elements in the xml output. Is there 
> a way of iterating through 
> this input text looking for the enumeration items? I mean, 
> could I increment the number 
> in the starts-with expression somehow?

By writing a recursive template you can increment the number used in the starts-with test. But couldn't you just test if the text node start with a number, e.g.

not(string(number(substring-before(., '.'))) = 'NaN')

Cheers,

Jarno - Hocico: Ruptura

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