Re: [xsl] Testing Text

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At 06:32 AM 1/7/2009, David wrote:
> pases the current node to a string function, so the function argument is
> the string value of the node, which is all the character data of the
> descendants.
>
> You want something like
>
> <xsl:template match="*">
>       <xsl:if test="contains(text(),'@')">@ found in <xsl:value-of
> select="name(.)"/></xsl:if>

... but beware, this is brittle when faced with mixed content ... 
test="text()[contains(.,'@')]" is somewhat less so ...

> or
>
> <xsl:template match="text()">
>       <xsl:if test="contains(.,'@')">@ found in <xsl:value-of
> select="name(..)"/></xsl:if>

This is better, and will generally work.

But if you have cases like

<p>Here's my @ text</p>
<p>Here's my <i>extra special @</i> text</p>

and always want to report "@ found in p" and never "@ found in i", 
you've got a different problem on your hands. :-)

Cheers,
Wendell



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