Re: select an element

Thanks, David. I got it work now by using <xsl:message>.... It is so
powerful to do debug thing. I did not know it since I am new on xsl.
The "Entry_form" is C! rather than "&#00E1" or "/xE1", very weird
though.


Thanks
Helen


On 5/17/05, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>  Thanks, David. I tried what you said put the $word="\xE1"; and give
>  initial value for parameter in <xsl:param name="Kentry"
>  select="'\xE1'"/>. And made the line like this:   <xsl:for-each
>  select="/reportname/Entry[substring(ENTRY_FORM,1,$wordLength) =
>
> No: In XML files you need to use XML conventtions so &xE1;
> in PHP files you need to use php conventions which (google tells me) are
> \xE1 so in the XML quoted above you should use XML & notation, although
> if you are passing in a parameter it doesn't matter what you put there
> as the default value is not used.
> What's $wordlength?
>
> change
> <xsl:for-each
> select="/reportname/Entry[substring(ENTRY_FORM,1,$wordLength) =
> substring($Kentry,1,$wordLength)]">
>
> to
>
> <xsl:for-each
> select="/reportname/Entry">
>
> so that you get something and add
>
> <xsl:message>
> ENTRY_FORM=<xsl:value-of select="ENTRY_FORM"/>
> $Kentry=<xsl:value-of select="$Kentry"/>
> $wordLength=<xsl:value-of select="$wordLength"/>
> </xsl:message>
>
> to the for each loop so you see the values that you are testing.
>
> David
>
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