Re: Re: [xsl] Thought i knew this but i guess not

[Brandon Ibach <brandon.ibach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Might want spaces at the beginning, as well, in case a value might be
a suffix of another value:

contains( concat( " ", normalize-space( translate( @filter, ",", " " )
), " " ), concat( " ", $wantFilter, " " ) )

-Brandon :)


On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Chris Maloney <voldrani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I guess, it's not that hard.  You can have commas and spaces in any
> combination.
> How about this, assuming you're looking for $wantFilter:
>
> contains( concat( normalize-space( translate( @filter, ",", " " ) ), "
> " ), concat( $wantFilter, " " ) )
>
> Russ, here are the steps:
> - First translate all commas to spaces
> - Then normalize-space -- look up that function if you don't know what
> it does.  If all you have are spaces (and no tabs, for example) then
> you can skip this.
> - Add a space to the end, just for good measure
> - Also add a space to the end of the thing you're looking for.  This
> prevents "filter1" from matching "filter11".
> - Then see if there's a match.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Liam R E Quin <liam@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 21:22 -0500, Chris Maloney wrote:
>>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:54 PM, Liam R E Quin <liam@xxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> > You want contains(concat(",", @filter, ","), ",filter1,") probably.
>>>
>>> Sorry to be kind of didactic here, but it won't work -- if you look at
>>> the example he gave earlier:
>>
>>> > The filter value can be of a form filter="filter1,filter10, filter17,
filter23" something like that, so i need to do a little more testing.
>>
>>> he's got spaces and commas, at random -- it's a mess.
>>
>> Ugh, you are right. Although that might just be in an example for
>> xml-dev, just as "filter17" might really be "wears-dark-socks" for all I
>> know.
>>
>> Liam
>>
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