Re: fixing XSL search using values from a variable ag

Hey Dave,

Sure thing, feel free. Be sure and bug me here so that "our crowd" can
join in. :-)

Note also that my solution was really a refinement/rewrite of your
solution -- taking your hint that this is what you wanted to try, I
worked from there. But there are other approaches both to the framing
of the query and to the test, as others have noted, a number of them
(typically) easier or more effective, depending on the case (and not
all XSLT neither as Syd wisely indicates).

Indeed, the brainstorming of totally new approaches (or refitting old
approaches unexpectedly) is one of the things this list is worth
reading for.

[Look ma, no XSLT just XPath]

<xsl:sequence
    select="collection('.?select=*.xml;recurse=yes')[some $f in
($filenames_to_find) satisfies contains(.,$f)]/document-uri(.)"/>

Also, if you keep your ears (eyes) open you may pick up some useful
info along the way, for example are you aware that your/our solution
fails if the file name mention is in an attribute value in the XML?
Maybe you/we don't care or maybe that's a feature.

So another caution is to be patient with us and our questions, as they
are not meant as a hindrance, but rather to elicit potentially
valuable info if only for framing context and avoiding rat holes.

Cheers, Wendell
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 10:09 PM Dave Lang emaildavelang@xxxxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your help, Wendell - I've got your suggested solution working
> now. I'm sure I'll be back to bug you with some questions (but not
> before I try to find the answers on my own first!).
>
> cheers,
>
> dave
>
> On 2018-10-04 10:47 AM, Wendell Piez wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Dave,
> >
> > Yeah it looks like there might be a syntax error line 20 should perhaps have
> >
> >        <xsl:message>{document-uri(/)} contains {
> > string-join($filenames_here,', ') }</xsl:message>
> >
> > also this is under 3.0 with @expand-text ...
> 



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