check values of 2 XPath-Expressions

[poroton]

Hi,

I want to test if values of nodes are the same:

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<xsl:if test="'//ab:person1/ab:gender' and '//ab:person2/ab:gender' '">

Why isn't this working?

[Radu]

Hi,

You usually need to use the "=" sign to compare two nodes or strings in XSLT. But there is not much context in what you posted to help further.
Usually when you post about an XSLT problem, posting a small sample XML and XSLT stylesheet help others understand better what you want to do.

Regards,
Radu

[poroton]

I changed my example to following (working) problem case:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" xmlns:ab="http://ab.example.net/V1.0/Schema" exclude-result-prefixes="ab">

	<xsl:template match="/">

		<Data>

			<xsl:if test="'//ab:kov-data/ab:person1/ab:gender' = '//ab:kov-data/ab:person2/ab:gender'">

			:)

		</xsl:if>

		</Data>

	</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<ab:kov-data xmlns:ab="http://ab.example.net/V1.0/Schema">

		<ab:person1>

			<ab:gender>m</ab:gender>

		</ab:person1>

		<ab:person2>

			<ab:gender>m</ab:gender>

		</ab:person2>

</ab:kov-data>

The result should be:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Data>:)</Data>

Using "=" didn't worked :/

[Radu]

Hi,

If you add those extra ' simple quotes around XPath expressions, they become simple strings.
So you should remove the simple quotes and obtain something like:

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<xsl:if test="//ab:kov-data/ab:person1/ab:gender = //ab:kov-data/ab:person2/ab:gender">

Regards,
Radu

[poroton]

This solves my question. Thank you for helping me.