Hi Bruce,
I am writing a search engine for a XML file. I am having a problem
figuring out the correct XSL to get the "contains" to find text
after a child element. This is the example XML file (TMX format).
<tmx><body>
<tu>
<tuv lang="JA"><seg></seg></tuv>
<tuv lang="EN-US"><seg>XXX<ut>eeee</ut>YYY</seg></tuv>
</tu>
</body></tmx>
In this case if I search for "XXX", my search algorithm works. But
if I enter "YYY" it fails. I have determined that my algorithm fails
if it tries to find something after the first child element ("<ut>")
occurs.
Note that "XXX" is the value of the *first* text node within the <seg>
element, whereas "YYY" is the *last* text node within the <seg>
element. You're doing:
Here is the XSL code:
<xsl:template match="tu">
<xsl:if test="tuv/seg[contains (text(), $SearchText)] or
$SearchText=''">
You're testing whether the <tu> element contains a <tuv> element that
contains a <seg> element whose *first* text node contains $SearchText.
Why is it only looking at the first text node? Because the first
argument to the contains() function is a string, and when you convert
a node set to a string, you get the first node in the node set.
I'm not sure what you're wanting to do. If you want to include the
text within the <ut> element in your search, you should use:
<xsl:if test="tuv/seg[contains(., $SearchText)]">
...
</xsl:if>
If you're not interested in the text inside the <ut> element, then
look at the values of the text() nodes with:
<xsl:if test="tuv/seg/text()[contains(., $SearchText)]">
...
</xsl:if>
Cheers,
Jeni
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Jeni Tennison
http://www.jenitennison.com/
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