Re: What's wrong with my Xpath declaration?

Hi Pankaj,

I would have done this as following:

<xsl:for-each select="./author[1]/name/givenname">
   <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="contains(., '.')">
               <xsl:value-of select="."/>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
             <xsl:value-of select="substring(., 1, 1)"/>
               <xsl:text>.</xsl:text>
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>
</xsl:for-each>

Let me know if it works.

Thanks & Regards
Mandar

On 7/15/08, Pankaj Chaturvedi <pankaj.chaturvedi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I have a markup, which looks like below:
>
> <author primaryauthor="no" corresponding="no" seq="2">
> <name><givenname>Julia</givenname><surname>Laker</surname></name>
> </author>
>
> All I am trying to check whether <givenname> contains "." or not, if it does
> take whole <givenname> string otherwise get the first character. Below is
> what I have defined, which was working perfect earlier with "1.0" version,
> but doesn't seems to be working with version 2.0. I tried to modify the
> xpath with              <xsl:when
> test="./author[1]/name/givenname[contains(string(), '.')]">, which do not me
> error but also do not produce the desired output.
>
> Stylesheet
> ============
>
>        <xsl:choose>
>                <xsl:when
> test="./author[1]/name/givenname/contains(string(), '.')">
>                <xsl:value-of select="./author[1]/name/givenname/string()"/>
>                </xsl:when>
>                <xsl:otherwise>
>                <xsl:value-of
> select="./author[1]/name/givenname/substring(string(), 1, 1)"/>
>                <xsl:text>.</xsl:text>
>                </xsl:otherwise>
>        </xsl:choose>
>
> Can somebody guide me.
>
>
> Best,
>
> Pankaj Chaturvedi
>
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Thanks & Regards,
Mandar