Re: [xsl] how to create variable by comparing two variables using [not]

["Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At first glance it seems that a call to string-join() is missing, whose
results would stick together the many strings into one, that then can be
used as the single string first argument of tokenize()

On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 12:17 PM Dave Lang emaildavelang@xxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm having trouble comparing two variables to find out which values are
> present in one but not the other. My attempts to do this return the
> error message:
>
> "A sequence of more than one item is not allowed as the first argument
> of fn:tokenize()"
>
> Here's how I'm creating the variables I'm trying to compare:
>
> <xsl:variable name="jpg_all_names"
> select="tokenize(distinct-values(($jpg_list_1, $jpg_list_2,
> $jpg_list_3)), '\s+')"/>
> <xsl:variable name="jpg_all_links" select="sort(($jpg_link_a,
> $jpg_link_b, $jpg_link_c)/tokenize(., '[/=]') [last()])"/>
>
> These variables create lists of jpg file names. I want to see which (if
> any) files are referenced in $jpg_all_links but not in $jpg_all_names
>
> To do that I'm trying:
>
> <xsl:variable name="jpgs_in_xml_not_directories"
> select="($jpg_all_links)[not(. = $jpg_all_names)]"/>
>
> But it doesn't work.
>
> Any assistance, as always, appreciated!
>
> dave
> 
>


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