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How to select elements with value that starts with 'a'
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- Subject: [xsl] How to select elements with value that starts with 'a'
- From: Dan Diebolt <dandiebolt at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 04:13:24 -0700 (PDT)
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Use substring() function to predicate for values that start
with the letter a.
Regards,
Dan
File: Substring27April2001.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="Substring27April2001.xsl"?>
<data>
<elem>a123</elem>
<elem>a312</elem>
<elem>b123</elem>
<elem>c321</elem>
</data>
File: Substring27April2001.xsl
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates select="data"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="data">
<xsl:for-each select="*[substring(.,1,1)='a']">
<xsl:value-of select="."/><br/>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
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