But wouldn't "Virginia" match "West Virginia" with with contains(.,$state)?
-----Original Message-----
From: Passin, Tom [mailto:tpassin(_at_)mitretek(_dot_)org]
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 12:49 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: RE: [xsl] xsl string comparison fails why?
[ Yates, Danny]
For the first state (Alabama), "admissions/state/text()"
evaluates to something like:
Alabama<cr><space><space><cr><space><space>
Which is NOT the same as:
Alabama
You can solve this either by using normalize-space() or by
changing your <state> elements so that they don't use a mixed
content model (i.e. containing both text and other elements). e.g.:
Actually, even nomalize-space() does not quite do it because it
collapses all the whitespace down to one space, resulting in
Alabama<space>
This still won't match "Alabama", but
contains(.,$state)
will work.
After that, as Mike and Danny say, some redesign will probably be a good
idea, either of the source or the stylesheet.
Cheers,
Tom P
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