Subject: Re: [xsl] attribute closest match From: Alex Sharpe <alexanderfsharpe@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 19:33:21 -0700 (PDT) |
Hey Mat, this may be of some help. to upper case: translate(somevalue,'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz','ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ') to lower case: translate(somevalue,'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ','abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ') Hope this is helpful. Alex. --- Joerg Heinicke <joerg.heinicke@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Matthew, > > to find a "closest match" is really not a work for > XSLT. XML in general > is really exact, so you can't do such work. So only > things I could > imagine are the functions contains() and > starts-with(), but it's not > much of sense I think. Try another approach than > XSLT or use an > extension function. > > Regards, > > Joerg > > Matthew L. Avizinis wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am comparing a series of attribute (called > 'id') values in one xml file > > with same in a second xml file. If there is an id > value in the the second > > file which matches, I grab the value of the > element and use it. If there is > > no match, I use the Xalan redirect extension > element to emit a log file > > entry essentially stating that there wasn't a > match for that id but can't > > provide much more information. It could be that > there is a _nearly_ > > matching id, e.g. maybe two characters are > accidentally transposed. > > I believe that use of computers should make our > lives easier. So what I'd > > like to know is if anyone knows of any XSLT > templates which can essentially > > find a _closest match_ which I could then emit to > the log file or do I have > > to resort to writing an extension function? > > > > thank you for any suggestions, > > > > Matthew L. Avizinis > > > XSL-List info and archive: > http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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