Re: Complex expression problem...

["Steve Muench" <smuench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<xsl:for-each 
  select="/customers/customer[starts-with(name,'a')
                              and 
                              starts-with(city,'b')
                              and
                              starts-with(zip,'9')]">
  :
  :
</xsl:for-each>

Although, if you'll be doing this over thousands of
customers *AND* you are already pulling the customer
information from a database, you might want to
push this query through and let your database filter
the rows *before* rendering the resulting matches
as XML to make things go a lot faster...Just a thought,
and might not apply to your situation, but seemed
like it was worth suggesting...

______________________________________________________________
Steve Muench, Lead XML Evangelist & Consulting Product Manager
Business Components for Java Dev't Team, Oracle Corporation

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Asbell" <jonathana@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 2:12 PM
Subject: Complex expression problem...


| How do I say
| 
| __________________________________
| for each customer where....
| the value of "name" begins with "a"
| and
| the value of "city" begins with "p"
| and
| the value of "zip" begins with "9"
| output their field values
| (that is for each one that matches the criteria, give me their records)
| __________________________________
| 
| 
| the xml is below.....
| 
| 
| <customers>
| <customer>
| <customer_id>ALFKI</customer_id>
| <company_name>Alfreds Futterkiste</company_name>
| <contact_name>Maria Anders</contact_name>
| <contact_title>Sales Representative</contact_title>
| <address>Obere Str. 57</address>
| <city>Berlin</city>
| <region></region>
| <postal_code>12209</postal_code>
| <country>Germany</country>
| <phone>030-0074321</phone>
| <fax>030-0076545</fax>
| </customer>
| <customer>
| <customer_id>AROUT</customer_id>
| <company_name>Around the Horn</company_name>
| <contact_name>Thomas Hardy</contact_name>
| <contact_title>Sales Representative</contact_title>
| <address>120 Hanover Sq.</address>
| <city>London</city>
| <region></region>
| <postal_code>WA1 1DP</postal_code>
| <country>UK</country>
| <phone>(171) 555-7788</phone>
| <fax>(171) 555-6750</fax>
| </customer>
| 
| etc.......
| 
| </customers>
| 
| 
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