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Subject: Re: [xsl] xsl string comparison fails why? From: Mike Brown <mike@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:50:09 -0600 (MDT) |
Andrew Welch wrote: > The simplest solution that fits your stylesheet is to translate() out > any whitespace from the text() content of the <state> element before it > gets compared to the parameter: > > <xsl:for-each select="admissions/state/text()"> > <xsl:if test="translate(.,'	

 ','')=$state"> > <xsl:value-of select="."/> > </xsl:if> > </xsl:for-each> No, the simplest solution is to use normalize-space(), which will remove leading and trailing spaces, but won't take the space out of "Rhode Island". And the for-each is not strictly needed. <xsl:value-of select="admissions/state[normalize-space(text())=$state]"/> will give him what he asked for, although I suspect that what he *wants* is something like <xsl:for-each select="admissions/state[normalize-space(text())=$state]"/> <a href="{statelink/@href}"> <xsl:value-of select="statelink"/> </a> </xsl:for-each> where the for-each is just shifting the context to make the subsequent statelink references easier (you could use xsl:variable and $foo/statelink if you wanted) - Mike ____________________________________________________________________________ mike j. brown | xml/xslt: http://skew.org/xml/ denver/boulder, colorado, usa | resume: http://skew.org/~mike/resume/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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