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At 2009-05-27 14:28 -0500, Keith Gilbert wrote:
The content of an element is evaluated as a string from the concatenation of the descendent text nodes, and you incorrectly have:
<xsl:if test="category_name = apples">
... which tests the content of the child named "category_name" with the content of the child named "apples".
You want to compare the content to a string:
<xsl:if test="category_name = 'apples'">
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . Ken
Re: [xsl] Trouble understanding the Test expression in xsl:if
Subject: Re: [xsl] Trouble understanding the Test expression in xsl:if From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 15:54:19 -0400 |
At 2009-05-27 14:28 -0500, Keith Gilbert wrote:
I'm having trouble getting my head around this:
My shortened XML data:
<category> <category_name>apples</category_name> <product>red delicious</product> </category> <category_name>oranges</category_name> <product>sunkist</product> </category>
My simplified XSLT:
<xsl:template match="category"> <xsl:apply=templates/> </xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="category_name"> <xsl:if test="category_name = apples"> <xsl:call-template name=apple_template/> </xsl:if> </xsl:template>
For the life of me I can't figure out how to evaluate the value of "category_name" in the xsl:if line. I understand (I think) how to use xsl:value-of, but that doesn't seem to work inside the xsl:if. Any thoughts?
The content of an element is evaluated as a string from the concatenation of the descendent text nodes, and you incorrectly have:
<xsl:if test="category_name = apples">
... which tests the content of the child named "category_name" with the content of the child named "apples".
You want to compare the content to a string:
<xsl:if test="category_name = 'apples'">
I hope this helps.
. . . . . . . Ken
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