Ian,
Your alpha string doesn't contain the substring '1a' -- can you say
why you expect to get true? maybe we can help you test what you
actually want to test.
Ah -- testing for presence of alphabetical characters -- in XPath 1.0,
not(string-length($cont) = string-length(translate($cont,$alpha,''))
or "matches($cont,'.*[a-zA-Z].*')" in 2.0 (while I learn a new
regular expression syntax).
Cheers,
Wendell
At 12:58 PM 2/6/2006, you wrote:
Using Saxon 851... can someone tell me why the
following expression returns false?
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:for-each select="//entry">
<xsl:variable name="cont" select="."/>
<xsl:variable name="alpha"
select="'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'"/>
<xsl:if test="contains($alpha, $cont)">
<!-- do something -->
</xsl:if>
</xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<document>
<entry>1a</entry>
</document>
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