RE: String comparison

You are using Microsoft's old proprietary WD-xsl language, so you won't
be able to use XSLT constructs like starts-with() and contains() until
you upgrade to XSLT 1.0.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com 
[mailto:owner-xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com] On Behalf Of 
Dineen, Geoffrey
Sent: 04 September 2002 05:01
To: 'XSL-List(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com'
Subject: [xsl] String comparison


Hi

I have the following section of XML which I am parsing using 
the XSL included below it.  At the position marked "### 
conditional test here! ###" I am wanting to do a simple test 
where I examine the current URL from the "for-each select" 
statement to see if it contains the string "http://";.  If it 
does, the target of the resulting HTML HREF should be "_top" 
causing the page to load in the entire browser window.  If 
the URL does not contain the "http://"; string the page should 
be loaded in the "ESRCanvas" frame as is currently happening.

I'm just starting to learn the XSLT language, but presume I 
need to use a "choose .... otherwise" statement to get this 
test to work.  I am, however, not so sure on how I do the 
match between the current URL and the string "http://";.  I 
have experimented with the contains() and starts-with() tests 
but so far without much success.  Perhaps I am not using the 
correct stylesheet version ?

I do not quite know where I am going here so would greatly 
appreciate some help.

TIA
Geoff

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml:stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="menus.xsl"?>

<TOPICLIST TYPE="ESR Intranet">
   <TOPICS TYPE="ESR">
      <TOPIC>
         <TITLE>Home</TITLE>
         <URL>/default.asp</URL>
      </TOPIC>
    </TOPICS>
    <TOPICS TYPE="Databases &amp; Services">
      <TOPIC>
         <TITLE>Staff Directory</TITLE>
 
<URL>http://intranet/cgi-bin/gateway.exe?displayform=update/ma
nixsue</URL>
      </TOPIC>
    </TOPICS>
</TOPICLIST>


<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl";>

<!-- MENUS.XSL -->

<xsl:template match="/">
    <TITLE><xsl:value-of select="TOPICLIST/@TYPE" /></TITLE>
    <LINK REL="stylesheet" TYPE="text/css" 
HREF="/ESRscripts/menus.css" />
    <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JScript" SRC="/ESRscripts/menus.js"></SCRIPT>

    <!-- BUILD MENUBAR -->

    <DIV ID="divMenuBar">
    <TABLE ID="tblMenuBar" BORDER="0">
    <TR height="50%">
      
    <xsl:for-each select="//TOPICS[TOPIC]">
        <TD CLASS="clsMenuBarItem" VALIGN="BOTTOM">
            <xsl:attribute name="ID">tdMenuBarItem<xsl:value-of
select="@TYPE" /></xsl:attribute>
      <A CLASS="clsTopLevelLink"><xsl:attribute 
name="HREF"><xsl:value-of select="@TURL" 
/></xsl:attribute><xsl:value-of select="@TYPE" /></A> 
        </TD>
        <xsl:if test="context()[not(end())]">
        <TD VALIGN="BOTTOM">|</TD>
        </xsl:if>
    </xsl:for-each>
      
    </TR>
    </TABLE>
    </DIV>
              
    <!-- BUILD INDIVIDUAL MENUS -->
      
    <xsl:for-each select="//TOPICS[TOPIC]">
        <DIV CLASS="clsMenu" Left="0">
        <xsl:attribute name="ID">divMenu<xsl:value-of 
select="@TYPE" /></xsl:attribute>
      <DIV CLASS="clsMenuSpacer"></DIV>
      <xsl:for-each select="TOPIC">
      <DIV>

      ### conditional test here! ###

      <A TARGET="ESRCanvas">
          <xsl:attribute name="HREF"><xsl:value-of 
select="URL" /></xsl:attribute>
          <xsl:value-of select="TITLE" />
      </A>
      </DIV>
        </xsl:for-each>
        </DIV>
    </xsl:for-each>
      
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

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