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Subject: Re: Thought i knew this but i guess not
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 17:41:42 -0500
Re:  Thought i knew this but i guess not
Russ,

On 2/22/2011 5:19 PM, russurquhart1@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I used contains because filter could have the value
filter="filter1,filter10,filter2" and i thought having a
@filter='filter1' would fail for the previous string. If that is not
the case, i'll change it, but i thought i tried that one time and it
didn't work.

No, you're right, = won't work for this, in XSLT 1.0.


Yet another reason among many to prefer XSLT 2.0 for this kind of thing is that it makes this sort of problem considerably more tractable:
"tokenize(@filter,',\s*') = ('filter1','filter10')".


It's much harder to deal with in unextended XSLT 1.0: you either have to work with very carefully constrained values, or get into recursive templates to handle the strings. Or both. Or model the information in a way more amenable to XSLT 1.0.

Cheers,
Wendell

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