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Subject: RE: [xsl] using contains() on multiple elements of the same name
From: "Boge.Brett" <Brett.Boge@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:16:13 -0700

Bingo! Works peachy. Thanks for the great explanation.

Brett

-----Original Message-----
From: David Carlisle [mailto:davidc@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 4:11 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] using contains() on multiple elements of the same
name

> This works-
> This doesn't-

In XSLT2 both forms will generate an error (except in backwards compat
mode) b selects multiple nodes, and conatains( , ) needs string-valued
arguments. In XSLT2 that's an error, in xslt1 functions requiring a
string always discard all but the first supplied node and then take the
string value of that node, so
contains(b,'Bunch') is the same as contains(string(b[1]),'Bunch') which
is false, you want to to the contains test on each b separately so
b[contains(.,'Bunch')] is your friend.

David


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