RE: [xsl] Do some elements contain strings from other elements?

["W Charlton" <XSLList@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Piet,

I was only interested academically how one would programmatically select the
last word in a element and because of the very reason you pointed out, we
are only looking for contains(). Until we start getting data that doesn't
have the full un-split name or Surname, Christian name and First name etc...
nonsense (we have no control over the incoming data format) and start
getting Given and Family name or something similar, a rough match is all we
will ever expect without building some huge parsing app that uses some sort
of dictionary.
And don't start me on Address1, Address2.

But I take your point!

Sorry for wandering off topic Tommy;)

William Charlton
The yMonda team
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-----Original Message-----
From: P/C [mailto:piet.v.oostrum@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Piet van Oostrum
Sent: 27 January 2011 16:19
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [xsl] Do some elements contain strings from other elements?

W Charlton wrote:

 > Martin,
 > 
 > Yes thanks noted and I'm aware of that. Contains() is all we need.
 > 
 > Although as an academic question I'd be interested to hear how anyone
 > would match on the last word in the <FullName/> element.

Apparently you assume that the last word in the FullName is the
FamilyName, but even in English names that isn't always correct. You
probably don't have a sure way to split the FullName, however.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum
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