RE: [xsl] Substring selection anyone?

[David Rigby <RigbyD_UK1@xxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for that - I'd totally forgotten about 'translate'!

Cheers 

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Jiri Jirat [mailto:Jiri.Jirat@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 December 2000 09:15
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Subject: Re: [xsl] Substring selection anyone?


Hello David,
 would the translation to uppercase solve your problem?
Something like this:

test = "value/text[translate(substring(., 0,
4),'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz','ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ') = $key]"

where $key is only uppercase, e.g. "NAME"

Best regards
Jirka

David Rigby wrote:
> 
> Does anyone have any idea if there's a way to include a case insensitive
> substring comparison in an xpath predicate?  What I'd like is something of
> the form:
> 
> <xsl:apply-templates select="value/text[$key = <NO
> CASE!!>substring(value/text, 0, 4)] "/>
> 
> ...assuming $key is a simple string containing the search key
> 
> I don't know of any way to manage  the case insensitive aspect.
> 
> I'd be grateful for any assistance!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> David
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