Hi,
I am new to XSL and I have several questions - some of them might be
really easy ones but I just want to confirm.
1. Is it possible to compare two strings lexicographically in XSL/XPATH? I
believe the answer is no. Is there a way I can achieve this?
2. I have listed the XML & XSL below. In that the community name
attribute could start with a alphabet, a number or any other character.
Most of the community names are expected to start with alphabets. In my
output, if I have one or more community name starting with a certain
alphabet (i.e. 'A') then I want to put a link (aka advance orgranizer) at
the top of the page that would say 'A' and likewise for all the alphabets.
Also since I have few communities starting with non-alphabets, I would
want to put a link called Miscellaneous that would link to a page which
would display all non-alphabetic characters.
How would I go about doing this? And the those non-alphabetic characters
are not fixed, they could vary depending on the XML file used. If there
was string comparison allowed then I could do something like @name<'a' or
@name>'z' for each node and that would give me all non-alphabetic
characters.
Any ideas/help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
<record>
<community name="101 South">
... Some Information ...
</community>
<community name="**">
... Some Information ...
</community>
<community name="Adams">
... Some Information ...
</community>
<community name="Smith">
... Some Information ...
</community>
... .... ....
</record>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.1" xmlns:lxslt="http://xml.apache.org/xslt">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:apply-templates match="//community"/>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template name="community">
<xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'*')">
<xsl:call-template
name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity">
<xsl:with-param
name="letterLink">*</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'A')">
<xsl:call-template
name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity">
<xsl:with-param
name="letterLink">A</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'B')">
<xsl:call-template
name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity">
<xsl:with-param
name="letterLink">B</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'C')">
<xsl:call-template
name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity">
<xsl:with-param
name="letterLink">C</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
<xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'D')">
<xsl:call-template
name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity">
<xsl:with-param
name="letterLink">D</xsl:with-param>
</xsl:call-template>
</xsl:if>
.... AND SO ON ....
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Thanks
V. Patel.
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