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Re: [xsl] Return the string that matches earliest -- Got a slick XPath expression that solves this?

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On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> aabQc

What about:

   ('bQc', 'Qc')
       [string-length(substring-before('aabQc', .))
    =
       min((('bQc', 'Qc')!(string-length(substring-before('aabQc',
.))))[. gt 0])
       ]


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