Re: [xsl] Selecting all elements which have an attribute that matches a given pattern

[Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt <STAMMW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Stephen,

"contains" seems to work for me ... (with xpath++ tool [1]).
I used first example from [2].
Although XPath only provides "starts-with()" you can simulate "ends-with()"
you seem to need by adding a forbidden character (eg. '<' for attribute
values, see [3]).

$ xpath++ "//xs:element[contains(@name,'born')]" schema1.xml

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
<xs:element xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; name="dateborn"
type="xs:date"/>
$
$ xpath++ "//xs:element[contains(concat(@name,'<'),'born<')]" schema1.xml

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
<xs:element xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; name="dateborn"
type="xs:date"/>
$
$ cat schema1.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";>

<xs:element name="fname" type="xs:string"/>
<xs:element name="lname" type="xs:string"/>
<xs:element name="age" type="xs:nonNegativeInteger"/>
<xs:element name="dateborn" type="xs:date"/>

</xs:schema>
$

[1]
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=14511881&#145
11881

[2]
http://www.w3schools.com/schema/el_element.asp

[3]
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-AttValue


Mit besten Gruessen / Best wishes,

Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt
Developer, XML Compiler, L3
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From:       "Etheridge, Stephen" <stephen.etheridge@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:         <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:       08/18/2010 09:58 AM
Subject:    [xsl] Selecting all elements which have an attribute that
            matches a given pattern




Hi all and apologies if this has been dealt with previously, I searched
the archives and FAQ but did not find anything that was close to my
problem:

I have an XML file (a schema in fact) that is many thousands of lines
long and I need to edit it (i.e transform it).  There are numerous
elements of type <xs:element> all of which have a "name" attribute.
Some of those name attributes end with the string "List", e.g.
"MilkTypeList".  For those elements, I want to apply a template to add
an additional <xs:element>.  I am having great trouble crafting the
correct "match" for my <xsl:template>.  I have tried contains() and
matches() but my editor (Oxygen) states that those cannot be used as a
pattern and my reading supports that.  Can anyone help?

Thanks

Stephen



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