Re: [xsl] Finding Any Occurrance

["Bob Portnell" <simply.bobp@xxxxxxxxx>]

It does indeed help! Sorry I was unclear, where I was. $matcher is not
containing a result tree fragment, near as my result document tells me
... value-of $matcher gives me the nice string I want to search
against. (I'm in XSLT 2.0, as I ought to have said and didn't.)

It turns out my problem is actually about context. I'm inside a
for-each loop at that point, with that loop's context pointing out
into the outside document. I need to get myself back into the source
document somehow. Ew. Am I going to have to explicitly call the
document every time I want something from it?

Happy to take more advice,

Bob P
simply.bobp@xxxxxxxxx

On 9/1/06, Abel Online <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Bob,
>
> It'd be informative to know what you mean with "doesn't work". Do you
> mean that there's no match? Or do you mean that the result is different
> than from what you expected?
>
> The expression //title will retrieve all the title nodes. Unless all
> these titles together match your $matcher, you will have a true match
> (and I think this depends on the XSLT version you use, because in XSLT
> 1, I think $matcher contains a result tree fragment, which will not
> match). If what you are after is that the text of the titles should be
> matched against $matcher, you may try the following:.
>
> <xsl:if test="//title[. = $matcher]"> ... </xsl:if>
>
> In which case the test will be true if at least one of the title tags
> contains the text in $matcher. Perhaps this is even better
>
> <xsl:if test="//title[normalize-space(.) = normalize-space($matcher)]">
> ... </xsl:if>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Abel Braaksma
> http://abelleba.metacarpus.com
>
>
> Bob Portnell wrote:
> > (Another baby question, but at least it's on-topic)
> >
> > I have (successfully!) pulled some content from an outside file (and
> > hidden it in the variable $matcher). I now want to look through my
> > input file to see if that content is in any <title> child, anywhere,
> > so I know if it's worth carrying on processing for this content. But
> >
> > <xsl:if test="//title = $matcher">
> >
> > doesn't work. What have I overlooked?
> >
> > (US correspondents, have a great holiday weekend!)
> >
> > Bob P
> > simply.bobp@xxxxxxxxx