Re: [xsl] Testing if a string begins with numeric in XSL 1.0

Subject: Re: [xsl] Testing if a string begins with numeric in XSL 1.0
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:50:41 -0400
At 04:42 AM 10/20/2009, David wrote:
or

starts-with(translate($input-name,'123456789','000000000'),'0')

Or


contains('1234567890',substring($input-name,1,1))

(Also returns true for an empty $input-name.)

Cheers,
Wendell


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