Re: [xsl] Is XPath and/or XSLT designed such that I should never have to write special case code?

["Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2021-06-22 at 19:51 +0000, Dimitre Novatchev
dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> 
> Example: finding all (X)Html elements that have class $myClass:
> 
> B B B B B  //*[contains(concat(' ', @class, ' '), concat(' ', $myClass, '
> ')]
> 

Expressions like this, which work in some cases but are not partially
case insensitive in the way that HTML class attributes are defined to
be, is part of why we introduced contains-token() in XPath 3.B 

However, you're right, it's a good example for matching a token in a
space-separated list.

Liam

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