RE: [xsl] Conditional branching on string attribute in IE5?

["Steve Gold" <Steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Try moving the "contains" inside square brackets []  
Below is XSL and XML that does what you want.  (I changed to xsl:choose
from xsl:if because you said you'd have other cases to check aside from
images.)

It works if you do the following XSL:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";
version="1.0">
<xsl:template match="/">
	<xsl:for-each select="xml/info">
		<xsl:choose>
		<xsl:when test="@path[contains(.,'.jpg') or
contains(.,'gif')]">
			Image: <xsl:value-of select="@path" /><br />
		
		</xsl:when>
		<xsl:when test="@path[contains(.,'.htm') or
contains(.,'html')]">
			Href: <xsl:value-of select="@path" /><br />
		
		</xsl:when>
		</xsl:choose>
	</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Here is the XML I used:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="contains.xsl"?>
<xml>
 <info path="abc.txt" />
 <info path="def.gif" />
 <info path="ghi.jpg" />
 <info path="jkl.xml" />
 <info path="mno.htm" />
</xml>

This is the output:
Image: def.gif
Image: ghi.jpg
Href: mno.htm

  Enjoy,

            Steve


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Subject: [xsl] Conditional branching on string attribute in IE5?


Hi,

This is for IE5. For an XML file like:
<xml>
 <info path="abc.txt">
 <info path="abc.jpg">
</xml>
  
I want to check the value of xml/info/path,
and if it contains a .jpg or .gif extension, 
generate an img node, else generate an
href node.

I tried the following:
..
<xsl:for-each select="xml/info">
 <xsl-if test="contains(@path,'.jpg')">
   <xsl-element name="a">
    ..
and got an error, "Unknown method contains(@".

What is the right way to do this for IE5?
Upgrade to IE6 is not an option :-(
This is urgent, and I am stuck at this.
Please help out a new XSL enthusiast! :)

Thanks,


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