Re: [xsl] Filtering based on "list" of values

["Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "andrew welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: [xsl] Filtering based on "list" of values


> Imagine some XML such as...
>
> <root>
>     <store location="london">
>
>         <...>report data here</...>
>
>     </store>
[snip]
> </root>

> I guess I am thinking about passing something into the XSLT (via a
> param) along the lines of
>
>         "london,new york"
>
>         or
>
>         "tokyo, paris, london"

How about:

<xsl:apply-templates select="/root/store[contains($param, @location)]"/>

cheers
andrew

If you're going to do that it maybe better to delimit both sides, with 
commas for instance, otherwise you will get yor "New York" store when you 
search for "York".

Joe