Re: [xsl] test if first char in string is letter

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/06/2010 16:42, Mario Madunic wrote:
> What is the quickest way to test if the first char in a string is a letter (case does not really matter)?

That depends what you mean by letter (unicode has a lot of letters) and 
whether you want xslt 1 or 2 (xslt 2 has a lot more string handling 
capability)

in xpath 2 matches(.,^[a-z]','i') might be your friend or replace [a-z] 
by some bigger class such as \p{L}  (all letters)

David

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