Subject: Re: [xsl] Confusion with the results of starts-with() and a non-string arg From: "Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:20:53 -0000 |
true here means child::true, a reference to an element node. It's not the boolean constant true(). Saxon will generally give you a warning about this. You don't have an element named true, therefore child::true returns an empty sequence, and functions like starts-with treat an empty sequence the same as an empty string. Every string starts with the empty string, so the function returns true - or rather, true(). Michael Kay Saxonica > On 12 Dec 2018, at 21:10, Bridger Dyson-Smith bdysonsmith@xxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all - > > In the process of trying to illustrate something for a coworker, I stumbled across some behavior that has me Very Confused. I would expect the starts-with function to return 'false' when the second argument is not a string, but the opposite happens: it returns 'true'. > > Can someone please help me understand what's happening here? Is this a sort of type casting, or something else? > > Thank you in advance. > Best, > Bridger > > source.xml > ``` > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <test> > <my-string>This Is My String</my-string> > </test> > ``` > > test.xsl > ``` > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform <http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform>" > xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema>" > exclude-result-prefixes="xs" > version="2.0"> > > <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8"/> > <xsl:template match="@*|node()"> > <xsl:copy> > <xsl:apply-templates select="@*|node()"/> > </xsl:copy> > </xsl:template> > > <xsl:template match="my-string"> > <xsl:if test="starts-with(.,true)"> > <my-string-true> > <xsl:value-of select="starts-with(.,true)"/> > <xsl:text>###</xsl:text> > <xsl:value-of select="starts-with(.,'no')"/> > </my-string-true> > </xsl:if> > </xsl:template> > </xsl:stylesheet> > ``` > XSL-List info and archive <http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list> > EasyUnsubscribe <http://lists.mulberrytech.com/unsub/xsl-list/293509> (by email <>)
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