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Hi, > I have 2 XML elements each containing comma separated values. > I need to > take each individual value from <elem2> and see if it exists > in <elem1>. If > true is returned, go off and do something..... otherwise get > the next value > from <elem2> and compare it to all the values in <elem1> etc etc. > > <data> > <elem1>bloggs,smith,jones,bush,howard,bennis</elem1> > <elem2>skeen,seinfield,longshaw,bloggs,keitel</elem2> > </data> > > > So the approach would be: > > Take 'skeen' and compare it to all the comma separated values > in <elem1>. > If FALSE is returned, take 'seinfield' and compare to all > values in <elem1> > and so on...If TRUE is returned at any stage DO SOMETHING. If > at the end > nothing is found, DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT...... See my reply to "RE: [Fwd: CLARIFICATION IN XML 2 XML TRANSFORMATION]", that contains a solution to a similar problem. What you need is to write a recursive template that tokenizes using COMMA as a delimiter, then on each token check if that appears in the other list, e.g. with contains(concat(',', elem1, ','), concat(',', $token, ',')). You can find more info on recursive templates in the FAQ. Cheers, Jarno
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