Re: [xsl] Using contains with more than one string - XSLT2.0

Subject: Re: [xsl] Using contains with more than one string - XSLT2.0
From: "Vishnu vishnu@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 03:38:28 -0000
If we are using XSLT 2.0 then instead of constructing pattern contains(.,
'abc') or contains(., 'xyz') or contains(., 'pqr'), i think we can use
Quantified expressions some satisfies as below for the same example:-

some $a in ('abc','xyz','pqr') satisfies contains(.,$a)

Thanks!
Vishnu Singh

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From: Michele R Combs mrrothen@xxxxxxx
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Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 2:27 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] Using contains with more than one string - XSLT2.0

Hi Michael --

Pretty sure.  Using equal would constrain it to exact matches, yes?  Which is
not what I want.  For example, I want to use "neg" to find "negatives"
"negative" "neg" "negs" and so on, since the exact phrasing may vary.

Michele

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 3:53 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [xsl] Using contains with more than one string - XSLT2.0

Either use matches() as David Sewell suggests, or construct an expression
along the lines

contains(., 'abc') or contains(., 'xyz') or contains(., 'pqr')

But are you sure you actually want contains()? People often misuse it,
thinking it means "Node N contains value V". For that, you want an "equals"
test.

Michael Kay
Saxonica
mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx
+44 (0) 118 946 5893




On 28 Jan 2015, at 20:22, Michele R Combs mrrothen@xxxxxxx
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I've done some googling on this but nothing seems quite to match what I want
to do.
>
> At the top of my style sheet I have this:
>
>   <xsl:variable name="target" select="'Photo'"/>
>
> Then later I do this to find all titles with that string in them:
>
>   <xsl:for-each
select="//dsc//unittitle[contains(normalize-space(.),$target)]">
>
> So far so good, works great.  The problem comes when I want to tell the
contains function to match on any one of several strings, e.g. Photo or Neg or
Film.  So far I have tried the following but none of them work:
>
>   <xsl:variable name="target" select="'Photo|Neg'"/>
>   <xsl:variable name="target" select="'Photo'|'Neg'"/>
>   <xsl:variable name="target" select="'Photo' or 'Neg'"/>
>   <xsl:variable name="target" select="'Photo Neg'"/>
>
> If I must, I can stick the or'ed terms directly in the contains function
rather than using a variable, but when I tried a few variations on that, they
didn't work either.
>
> Thanks
>
> Michele
> +++++++++++++++
> Michele Combs
> Lead Archivist
> Special Collections Research Center
> Syracuse University Libraries
> 315-443-2081
> mrrothen@xxxxxxx
> scrc.syr.edu
>

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