Re: compare two nodes (the child elements, not the str

<xsl:variable name="author-string">
  <!-- generating an RTF containing a string -->
  <xsl:apply-templates select="$author" mode="string"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:variable name="person-string">
  <!-- again -->
  <xsl:apply-templates select="$person" mode="string"/>
</xsl:variable>
<xsl:if test="$author-string = $person-string"> ...

<xsl:template name="compare-person">
  <xsl:param name="author" select="/.."/>
  <xsl:param name="person" select="."/>
  <xsl:variable name="author-string">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="$author" mode="string"/>
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:variable name="person-string">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="$person" mode="string"/>
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:if test="$author-string = $person-string"> TRUE </xsl:if>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="author">
  <xsl:variable name="author" select="."/>
  <xsl:variable name="compare-result">
    <xsl:for-each select="$persons">
      <!-- generating an RTF containing a string,
           possibly including 'TRUE' -->
      <xsl:call-template name="compare-person">
        <xsl:with-param name="author" select="$author">
      </xsl:call-template>
    <xsl:for-each>
  </xsl:variable>
  <xsl:if test="contains($compare-result,'TRUE')"> ...

Cheers,
Wendell

Am 06.07.2011 um 20:54 schrieb Wolfhart Totschnig:

I have a seemingly simple xslt problem to which I cannot find the solution. I want to test whether the context node, which is an<author> element with the form (first?, middle?, last), is equal to one of a set of<person> elements. By "equal" I mean having the same child elements and values of these elements. At first, I thought it would be as easy as

test="path/person = ."

But then I realized that the "=" operator compares the string values of the nodes

Wolfhart,

How about this (not very cool):

test="concat(path/person/first, '|', path/person/first, '|', path/person/first)
     = concat(first, '|', middle, '|', last)"

- Michael M|ller-Hillebrand

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