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Re: [xsl] XPath, starts with ?

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Hi Eric,

> This XPath was working fine before and does not work any more.
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>    "/ric/fid[index() > 0 and @id='ROW*']"
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> What is the correct syntax to have every item that starts with
> something?

You should use the starts-with() function. Also, there's no index()
function in XSLT - I think that position() (which counts from 1 rather
than 0) probably gives you the same kind of effect.  So you want:

  /ric/fid[position() > 1 and starts-with(@id, 'ROW')]

I hope that helps,

Jeni

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