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Subject: Re: Compound filter in for-each
From: Alan Hale <alan.hale@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:32:05 +0000
Re:  Compound filter in for-each
Wendell Piez wrote:
Alan,

At 02:47 PM 3/24/2009, you wrote:
Still working on XML derived from Google Earth KML. I want to filter on
particular ExtendedData/Data name and value combinations. Here is an
extract of relevant XML:
<Placemark>
..................
<ExtendedData>
<Data name "sciencName">
<value>Euphrasia micrantha</value>
</Data>
<Data name "grid_ref">
<value>SN701822</value>
</Data>
<Data name "eng_name">
<value>An Eyebright</value>
</Data>
<Data name "rdb_status">
<value>Endangered</value>
</Data>
.........................
</ExtendedData>
............................
</Placemark>
So I guess what I am looking for is something like:
<xsl:for-each select "Placemark/ExtendedData/Data[@name 'rdb_status'and value
'Endangered']">
- though this doesn't work (in XML Notepad I just get the unhelpful error message "Input string was not in a correct format.")

You might want


select="Placemark/ExtendedData/Data[@name='rdb_status'][.='Endangered']

which is effectively the same as

select="Placemark/ExtendedData/Data[@name='rdb_status' and .='Endangered']

But it's impossible to say absolutely without knowing more about what you haven't told us.

The "." in that expression is short for XPath "self::node()", which is to say a reference to the context node. So ".='Endangered'" is a test for whether the context node of the evaluation (viz., each Data element selected by the path) has the string value "Endangered".

Whether you use one predicate with an "and" operator to join your tests, or two predicates, doesn't make any practical difference here.
Many thanksWendell

However I still get the same "Input string was not in a correct format" with XML Notepad, using either of your suggestions. I'm sorry I did not give sufficient background information. Happy to provide more but I'm not clear what type of further info might be needed.

I notice some "=" signs went missing in my XML example - I guess you realised this. Should be like this of course:

<Placemark>
..................
<ExtendedData>
        <Data name = "sciencName">
          <value>Euphrasia micrantha</value>
        </Data>
        <Data name = "grid_ref">
          <value>SN701822</value>
        </Data>
        <Data name = "eng_name">
          <value>An Eyebright</value>
        </Data>
        <Data name = "rdb_status">
          <value>Endangered</value>
        </Data>
.........................
</ExtendedData>
............................
</Placemark>

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