Re: [xsl] Testing for presence of alphabetical characters

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:38 PM 2/6/2006, Andrew wrote:
> > Ah -- testing for presence of alphabetical characters -- in XPath 1.0,
> >
> > not(string-length($cont) = string-length(translate($cont,$alpha,''))
>
> or
>
> contains(translate($cont, $alpha, 'x'), 'x')
>
> I've heard that string-length() can get expensive because of
> multi-byte characters, although I would've thought translate()
> sufferered from the same problem...

It might, although it's never slowed down any of my stylesheets so as 
to notice. :->

In any case, translate() is fun -- the secret-decoder-ring function, 
with all kind of nifty uses.

Cheers,
Wendell


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