Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath to test that a middle name consists of a letter followed by a period and nothing else ? From: "Richard Fozzard richard.fozzard@xxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 17:45:17 -0000 |
Agreed: we should answer the OP's question with an appropriate regex (which I think would just be " [a-zA-Z]\.", but I've not tested this in XPath, and leave the details to the experts). NOT Agreed: this isn't about political correctness, it's about software design correctness. While not directly about XSL/XPath, many discussions veer appropriately into whether a design will meet the desired use case. And forcing a single character middle name -- as has been amply demonstrated in previous posts -- would not even work if your intended audience was upper-middle-class-American-white-males in your 200 home gated community. These lists are communities of humans -- real people -- and it's entirely appropriate to point out a software design fail, as well as provide explicit XSL/XPath advice. Just my $0.02, --R. Lane Fozzard III, BS, MS, MS, LOSA, aka "Rich" -- Richard Fozzard, Computer Scientist Geospatial Metadata: http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/metadata/emma Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) Univ. Colorado & NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information 151 Patton Ave, Room 468, Asheville, NC 28801 Office: 828-271-4920 Cell: 303-579-5615, Email: richard.fozzard@xxxxxxxx On 6/2/16 10:39 AM, Tommie Usdin btusdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Friends b > > This is xls-list, not politically-correct-design-list. It is reasonable > for a participant to ask for help with an XPath test here, and reasonable > to give help with that test. Discussion of whether this is a test that > should be done for social reasons is out of scope for this list. > > If the question had been bhow to test that an element contains a letter > followed by a period and nothing elseb the OP would have gotten the > needed help without the politics. (While I am certain that Roger is > more than hardy enough to take this off-topic criticism, there are other > participants who would be chased off the list by the reception this > question has received.) > > So, can we please return to the XPath part of the question and leave > the business rules out of the discussion? > > Thank you. > > b Tommie > > ====================================================================== > B. Tommie Usdin mailto:btusdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com > 17 West Jefferson Street Phone: 301/315-9631 > Suite 207 Direct Line: 301/315-9634 > Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in XML and SGML > ======================================================================
Current Thread |
---|
|
<- Previous | Index | Next -> |
---|---|---|
Re: [xsl] XPath to test that a midd, Tommie Usdin btusdin | Thread | Re: [xsl] XPath to test that a midd, Michael Kay mike@xxx |
Re: [xsl] XPath to test that a midd, Tommie Usdin btusdin | Date | Re: [xsl] XPath to test that a midd, Michael Kay mike@xxx |
Month |