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

[Vyacheslav Sedov <vyacheslav.sedov@xxxxxxxxx>]

funny

"0" <= substring($input-name,1,1) and substring($input-name,1,1) <= "9"

(for XPath2 you even don`t need substring  '0' <= '88' and '88' <='9'
true in XPath 2 and false in XPath 1)

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> 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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