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Re: [xsl] how to create variable by comparing two variables using [not]

2018-10-14 14:36:22
At first glance it seems that a call to string-join() is missing, whose
results would stick together the many strings into one, that then can be
used as the single string first argument of tokenize()

On Sun, Oct 14, 2018 at 12:17 PM Dave Lang emaildavelang(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com <
xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:

I'm having trouble comparing two variables to find out which values are
present in one but not the other. My attempts to do this return the
error message:

"A sequence of more than one item is not allowed as the first argument
of fn:tokenize()"

Here's how I'm creating the variables I'm trying to compare:

<xsl:variable name="jpg_all_names"
select="tokenize(distinct-values(($jpg_list_1, $jpg_list_2,
$jpg_list_3)), '\s+')"/>
<xsl:variable name="jpg_all_links" select="sort(($jpg_link_a,
$jpg_link_b, $jpg_link_c)/tokenize(., '[/=]') [last()])"/>

These variables create lists of jpg file names. I want to see which (if
any) files are referenced in $jpg_all_links but not in $jpg_all_names

To do that I'm trying:

<xsl:variable name="jpgs_in_xml_not_directories"
select="($jpg_all_links)[not(. = $jpg_all_names)]"/>

But it doesn't work.

Any assistance, as always, appreciated!

dave




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