I'm working with a problem I'd like to solve with a single XPath
expression. Yes, this is slightly off-topic, but I've seen some of the
mind-boggling XPath expressions pass through this list and can't figure
out how to do this one myself.
The XML file excerpt is something like this:
...
<Address addressID="100">
<Name xml:lang="en">90 - Test Name</Name>
...
</Address>
...
<Address addressID="100">
<Name xml:lang="en">91 - Another Name</Name>
...
</Address>
By definition, there are more than one Address element per XML file.
Normally, there will be exactly two, but the spec allows the number to
be open-ended.
I would like to receive back a nodeset from the XPath expression, but
concatenating the addressID with the substring-before(Name, ' '). If I
evaluate:
concat( //Address/@addressID, '-',
substring-before( //Address/Name, ' ' ) )
I get back a String with one value ("100-90", in this case). What I
want is a nodeset containing elements with "100-90", "100-91". Does
anyone have any ideas on how to procede? I'm running Xalan 2.4.1, but
could upgrade to 2.5.1 if there is functionality there that's not
present in 2.4.1.
Thanks,
Tim
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