Re: [xsl] Testing for presence of alphabetical characters

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian,

Your alpha string doesn't contain the substring '1a' -- can you say 
why you expect to get true? maybe we can help you test what you 
actually want to test.

Ah -- testing for presence of alphabetical characters -- in XPath 1.0,

not(string-length($cont) = string-length(translate($cont,$alpha,''))

or "matches($cont,'.*[a-zA-Z].*')" in 2.0 (while I learn a new 
regular expression syntax).

Cheers,
Wendell

At 12:58 PM 2/6/2006, you wrote:
> Using Saxon 851... can someone tell me why the
> following expression returns false?
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <xsl:for-each select="//entry">
> <xsl:variable name="cont" select="."/>
> <xsl:variable name="alpha"
> select="'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'"/>
> <xsl:if test="contains($alpha, $cont)">
> <!-- do something -->
> </xsl:if>
> </xsl:for-each>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <document>
> <entry>1a</entry>
> </document>
>
>
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