Re: [xsl] xpath query question

["andrew welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/11/06, Andrei Matei <AndreiMatei@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I want to ask you if I can do something with xpath. I have an xml that
> looks like this:
>
> <a>
>   <b>
>    content 1
>   </b>
>   <b>
>    content 2
>   </b
>   ..
> </a>
>
> I want an xpath expression that would tell me if all the contents of the b
> nodes are the same. For the example above this wouldn't happen, because
> "content 1" != "content 2". It doesn't matter what the expression would
> output (the first b would be great). Is this possible with xpath?

If your content is exactly like that then you can just do:

<xsl:if test="b[1] = b[2]"> the contents match</xsl:if>

cheers
andrew