Subject: RE: [xsl] Matching on of many string literal values using XPath From: TSchutzerWeissmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:38:13 +0100 |
Hello Richard, > I would like to select all nodes from a particular set of > elements that > matches one of several values. Is there a simpler way of > doing it then > what is below? > > <xsl:template match="client/race[text()='white'] | > client/race[text()='black'] | > client/race[text()='asian'] | > client/race[text()='hispanic'] | > agencies/race_served[text=()='white'] | > agencies/race_served[text=()='black'] | > agencies/race_served[text=()='asian'] | > agencies/race_served[text=()='hispanic'] > "> > I would like to define all of the string literals (white,black,etc) in > one place (a variable?) then just specify the paths I want to > match you could make a variable that concatenates all the different values you'd like to test for and use contains() to do the test. ie <xsl:variable name="raceList"> <xsl:text>white|black|asian|hispanic</text> </xsl:variable> and <xsl:template match="client/race[contains($raceList,.)] | agencies/race_served[contains($raceList,.)]"> --- Tom XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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