Re: [xsl] Does 'Lec?ur' occur in $text? Do you have a multi-fa ctor XPath solution?

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2013-01-18 22:12 +0000, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> I want to determine if 'Lecur' occurs in $text.
>
> A naove solution is this XPath expression:
>
>       contains($text, 'Lecur')
>
> However, that does not take into account many important factors:
>
> 1. Perhaps 'Lecur' occurs, but in $text it is in uppercase

Use lower-case() or upper-case() on both operands.

> 2. Perhaps instead of the '' ligature, $text uses 'oe'

Use normalize-unicode() on both operands.

> 3. Perhaps in $text 'Lecur' is split over two lines and thus is hyphenated

Use translate() to remove any hyphens.

> 4. Perhaps 'Lecur' is slightly misspelled in
> $text and therefore requires fuzzy matching

I can't help you there, sorry.

> And there are many other important factors.

Not sure what you are thinking of there.

> Do you have an XPath solution to this problem
> that takes into account the many important factors?

A nested combination of the above function
calls.  Left as an exercise for the reader.

I hope this helps.

. . . . . . . Ken


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