Subject: RE: [xsl] String ends with ?, ! or not From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:47:30 +0100 |
XPath 2.0 has an ends-with() function, in XPath 1.0 you can do substring($in, X) = $test where X is the string-length of $in minus the string-length of $test. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Pankaj Chaturvedi [mailto:pankaj.chaturvedi@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: 29 April 2008 13:04 > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [xsl] String ends with ?, ! or not > > Is there is way, we can test whether a string ENDS-WITH a ?, !. > > <articletitle>Dynamics of the trade balance and the terms of > trade: The J‐curve?</articletitle> > > I am trying to test, whether the <articletitle> string ends > with ? (?) or not. Below is what I've tried to define > in my stylesheet (note that I've tested Unicode value for > ? as it gives error to define an external entity > ?, which I've done by declaring a ENTITY declaration in XML as > <!ENTITY quest "[#x0003F]" ><!--=question mark --> ). > > > <xsl:choose> > <xsl:when test="./articletitle/contains(string(), '#x0003F')"> > <char><xsl:text> </xsl:text></char> > </xsl:when> > <xsl:otherwise> > <char><xsl:text>, </xsl:text></char> > </xsl:otherwise> > </xsl:choose> > > > Question: contains() function just whether string has '?' in > it or not, which means it will be true for strings like > "XXXXXXX The J‐curve? YYYY", whereas I need to > check whether it ends with or not (Alas I do not know any > functions apart from starts-with()). > > > Any suggestions please in this regard. > > > Pankaj > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Best, > > Pankaj Chaturvedi > > ============================================================== > ============== > ================
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