Re: [xsl] How to select elements with value that starts with 'a'

[Ronald <ronald@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

<xsl:stylesheet 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";  version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="data">
    <xsl:apply-templates select="elem[starts-with(self::elem, 'a')]"/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

something like this?

RH
At 12:45 PM 4/27/01 +0200, you wrote:
> Hi
>
> Here is example:
>
> <data>
>         <elem>a123</elem>
>         <elem>a312</elem>
>         <elem>b123</elem>
>         <elem>c321</elem>
> <data>
>
> I would like to select only
>
>         <elem>a123</elem>
>         <elem>a312</elem>
>
> I tried
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="predmet[ starts-with(elem, 'a')]"/>
>
> but I got exception
>
> Exception in thread "main" javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: Can not
> convert #BOOLEAN to a NodeList!
>
> How can I achieve that template select only elements with value that starts
> with 'a' ?
>
> I know that I could select all <elem> and then check, in template that
> matches <elem>, if it starts with 'a' but that would be very slow.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Denis Kranjcec
>
>
>
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