Re: [xsl] XPath question.

[Ben Trafford <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:31 AM 5/7/2003 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
> <xsl:if test="starts-with(//title, 'Q')
>
> do you really want // there, testing if any title element anywhere in
> the document starts with Q ?  This is very expensive.
> I suspect you mean starts-with(entry/title, 'Q') so as to just test the
> title of this entry.

        No, I do want to test each title. It is expensive, but not so much 
so that it's a major concern; the source file is quite small, by document 
standards.

> Well your example input doesn't have a title starting with Q, if any did
> your template should get called.

        Actually, I did get it to appear eventually...but only when I 
changed it to a 'not' test. In other words, it doesn't seem to be finding 
the <title> or <episode> nodes, though it ought to be.

--->Ben 


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