Re: [xsl] String ends with ?, ! or not

Pankaj Chaturvedi wrote:
> Is there is way, we can test whether a string ENDS-WITH a ?, !.
>
> <articletitle>Dynamics of the trade balance and the terms of trade: The
> J&hyphen;curve&quest;</articletitle>
>
> I am trying to test, whether the <articletitle> string ends with &quest; (?)
> or not. Below is what I've tried to define in my stylesheet (note that I've
> tested Unicode value for &quest; as it gives error to define an external
> entity &quest;, which I've done by declaring a ENTITY declaration in XML as
> <!ENTITY quest            "[#x0003F]" ><!--=question mark --> ).
>
>
> <xsl:choose>
>         <xsl:when test="./articletitle/contains(string(), '#x0003F')">
Are you using XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0? That has a function ends-with 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/#func-ends-with
  <xsl:when test="ends-with(articletitle, '?')">

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        Martin Honnen
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