RE: [xsl] xsl string comparison fails why?

Subject: RE: [xsl] xsl string comparison fails why?
From: "Kevin Collins" <kcollins@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:12:07 -0400
In the for-each, did you try printing out the value of "."?

Not sure about this, but I think the string value of
"admissions/state/text()" will include the value of the child
<statelink> element as well.

Try removing the text() node test. So: 
<xsl:for-each select="admissions/state">

Kevin

> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <admissions>
>  <state>Alabama
>   <statelink
>   href="http://www.alabar.org/page.cfm?view=3&amp;subgroup=main";>
>   Bar Admissions Information</statelink>
>   </state>

>> 	<xsl:for-each select="admissions/state/text()">
> 		<xsl:if test=".=$state">
> 			<xsl:value-of select="."/>
> 		</xsl:if>
> 	</xsl:for-each>

> The if never evalutes to true even if it is testing 
> Alabama=Alabama. I can print the value of the parameter using 
> <xsl:value-of select="$state"/> just fine


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