RE: [xsl] Expression in XPath

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dariusz,

If one is willing to use a little XSLT, this result is easy enough to 
get in XSLT 1.0. Why is a single XPath expression important to you?

Cheers,
Wendell

At 03:55 AM 3/2/2006, Mike wrote:
> In XPath 1.0 there is no way of constructing a sequence of strings (there's
> no such type in the data model), and there is no way of constructing new
> nodes, so I'm afraid this is impossible.
>
> In 2.0 it's straightforward:
>
> for $x in (your current expression)
> return substring-after($x, '(mm)')
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dariusz Borowski [mailto:d.borowski@xxxxxx]
> > Sent: 02 March 2006 00:59
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [xsl] Expression in XPath
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Could anyone help me? I have this result:
> > ========================================================
> > (mm)B-1: A eTSS Login
> > (mm)B-2: A eLogbook Viewer Login
> > (mm)B-3: A Rig Activity Entry (Req. # 6.2.2.1.1, 6.2.2.3.5, 3.5.1.1)
> > (mm)B-4: A Access tool from PC outside the firewall in SCTF
> > (mm)B-5: A eReport Login
> > (mm)B-6: A Privileged User ? Login
> > ========================================================
> >
> > from this expression:
> > //office:body/office:text/table:table/table:table-row/table:ta
> ble-cell/text:p[starts-with(text(), '(mm)')]
> >
> >
> > But, I would like to get the following result with ONE Expression:
> > ========================================================
> > B-1: A eTSS Login
> > B-2: A eLogbook Viewer Login
> > B-3: A Rig Activity Entry (Req. # 6.2.2.1.1, 6.2.2.3.5, 3.5.1.1)
> > B-4: A Access tool from PC outside the firewall in SCTF
> > B-5: A eReport Login
> > B-6: A Privileged User ? Login
> > ========================================================
> >
> > I tried already something like this:
> > //office:body/office:text/table:table/table:table-row/table:ta
> ble-cell/text:p[substring(starts-with(text(), '(mm)'), 4)]
> >
> > but it didn't work... :(
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> >
> > Dariusz
> >
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