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How to select elements with value that starts with 'a'


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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