Bob,
Was it someone else who asked something very closely analogous to
this just a week or two ago?
In any case,
At 11:35 AM 9/6/2006, you wrote:
I want to find <program> elements whose <title> or <subtitle> or
<description> might contain the string I've stowed in the variable
$target. Something simple like
<xsl:if test="matches(normalize-space(//tv:program),$target)">
fails, since the first argument wants to be a node, not a sequence.
Right. When they try this sort of thing people generally want
<xsl:if test="//tv:program[matches(normalize-space(),$target]">
which tests true if such a node exists.
An optimized processor, I assume, will return true as soon as it
finds one such node. A naive one will examine all of them before
returning true.
Cheers,
Wendell
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