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> I am using a count function to count th enumber of <title> > tgas in an xml > file which contain a certain starting letter. > e.g. $alph = 'A' > <xsl:variable name="countletter" select="count(number of > titles with a > starting letter of a)"/> > <xsl:if test="($countletter > 0)"> > <p><xsl:value-of select="$alph"/></p> > </xsl:if> > > How would i write the test case for the xsl:if? > would u do some sort of string comparison like > not(starts-with($countletter, > '0'))?? > > i can't use keys as the xml is coming from multiple files. > cheers james If all you want to do is check if there is a <title> element with the first text node that starts with 'a' then you can use: <xsl:if test="starts-with(//title, 'a')"> ... </xsl:if> cheers andrew
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