Hi all,
I'm sure i should be spending more time on this myself, but i'm in a 
bit of a time crunch and i can't seem to find what i'm looking for.
I'm trying to test to see if multiple nodes contain a value.
xml is like:
<publication_1>a publication</publication_1>
<publication_2>a publication</publication_2>
.
.
.
<publication_n>a publication</publication_n>
i want to do, in pseudocode
<xsl:if test="any node which starts with publication_ has a value">
        do something
</xsl:if>
is it possible to concatenate string values of a nodeset together? (in 
xsl 1.0)
something like:
<xsl:test select="concat(*[starts-with(name(),'publication_')]) !='' ">
again, this may be simple.  sorry.  I wish i had more time to research 
it on my own.
Thanks for any help,
jonathan
On Aug 26, 2004, at 4:08 PM, cking wrote:
Hello Susan,
<sw:stop>
  <word>the</word>
  <word>a</word>
  <word>an</word>
</sw:stop>
<xsl:variable name="stop-words" 
select="document('')/xsl:stylesheet/sw:stop/word"/>
I didn't know this was possible? Selecting elements from the 
stylesheet by using document('')
Anyway, it didn't work for me... so I put the stop-words in a separate 
file and used
"document('stop-words.xml')/stop/word" instead; that worked.
(I also corrected the "uppercase" variable: the last 4 chars are 
missing)
Then, after some experimenting, I succeeded in sorting twice, with 
empty titles included,
simply by omitting [text()!=''] from your first for-each select. Like 
this:
    <xsl:for-each select="//section-02/title"> <!-- removed 
[text()!=''] -->
     <xsl:sort select="concat(substring(substring-after(.,' '), 0 div 
boolean
     ($stop-words[starts-with(translate(current(), $uppercase, 
$lowercase),
     concat(translate(., $uppercase, $lowercase), ' '))])), 
substring(., 0 div not
     ($stop-words[starts-with(translate(current(), $uppercase, 
$lowercase),
     concat(translate(., $uppercase, $lowercase), ' '))])))"/>
     <xsl:sort select="number(concat(substring(../arrival-date, 7,4),
     substring(../arrival-date, 1,2), substring(../arrival-date, 
4,2)))" order="descending"/>
     <!-- added ../ -->
     <tr>
      <td width="10%"><xsl:value-of select="../doc-number"/></td>
      <td width="30%"><xsl:value-of select="../title" /></td>
      <td width="10%"><xsl:value-of select="../isbn-issn"/></td>
      <td width="20%"><xsl:value-of select="../imprint"/></td>
      <td width="20%"><xsl:value-of select="../description"/></td>
      <td width="10%"><xsl:value-of select="../arrival-date"/></td>
     </tr>
    </xsl:for-each>
You were really close, I guess... I hope I didn't miss something, but 
I think it works now
Best regards,
Anton Triest
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