Subject: Re: [xsl] Strings Comparison Question. From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 12:52:24 -0800 (PST) |
For a string-comparison snippet see: http://www.topxml.com/code/default.asp?p=3&id=v20010205033413&ms=20&l=xpath&sw=lang ===== Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev. http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL "Patel, Viral" <viral.patel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:7C1965B54EADD61190B80008023D05F4790C9C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sorry if you get duplicates but I got some email transmission error so I am > gonna post this problem one more time and see if someone can help me. > > > I am new to XSL and I have several questions - some of them might be really > easy ones but I just want to confirm. > > 1. Is it possible to compare two strings lexicographically in XSL/XPATH? I > believe the answer is no. Is there a way I can achieve this? > > > 2. I have listed the XML & XSL below. In that the community name attribute > could start with a alphabet, a number or any other character. Most of the > community names are expected to start with alphabets. In my output, if I > have one or more community name starting with a certain alphabet (i.e. 'A') > then I want to put a link (aka advance orgranizer) at the top of the page > that would say 'A' and likewise for all the alphabets. Also since I have > few communities starting with non-alphabets, I would want to put a link > called Miscellaneous that would link to a page which would display all > non-alphabetic characters. > > How would I go about doing this? And the those non-alphabetic characters > are not fixed, they could vary depending on the XML file used. If there was > string comparison allowed then I could do something like @name<'a' or > @name>'z' for each node and that would give me all non-alphabetic > characters. > > Any ideas/help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > > > <record> > <community name="101 South"> > ... Some Information ... > </community> > <community name="**"> > ... Some Information ... > </community> > <community name="Adams"> > ... Some Information ... > </community> > <community name="Smith"> > ... Some Information ... > </community> > ... .... .... > </record> > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" > version="1.1" xmlns:lxslt="http://xml.apache.org/xslt"> > > <xsl:template match="/"> > <xsl:apply-templates match="//community"/> > </xsl:template> > > <xsl:template name="community"> > <xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'*')"> > <xsl:call-template > name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity"> > <xsl:with-param > name="letterLink">*</xsl:with-param> > </xsl:call-template> > </xsl:if> > <xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'A')"> > <xsl:call-template > name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity"> > <xsl:with-param > name="letterLink">A</xsl:with-param> > </xsl:call-template> > </xsl:if> > <xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'B')"> > <xsl:call-template > name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity"> > <xsl:with-param > name="letterLink">B</xsl:with-param> > </xsl:call-template> > </xsl:if> > <xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'C')"> > <xsl:call-template > name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity"> > <xsl:with-param > name="letterLink">C</xsl:with-param> > </xsl:call-template> > </xsl:if> > <xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'D')"> > <xsl:call-template > name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity"> > <xsl:with-param > name="letterLink">D</xsl:with-param> > </xsl:call-template> > </xsl:if> > .... AND SO ON .... > </xsl:template> > > </xsl:stylesheet> > > > > > Thanks > V. Patel. > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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