My instinct is to use index-of() to get the positions of the elements that
match the first required byte, and then for each of these positions, form the
string of N bytes starting at this position and do a string comparison to test
whether there is a match at this position.
let $candidates := index-of(/Bytes/Byte, substring($req, 1, 2))
return $candidates[string-join(subsequence(/Bytes/Byte, ., $len), '') eq
$req][1] - 1
Michael Kay
Saxoniica
On 12 Mar 2019, at 17:35, Costello, Roger L. costello(_at_)mitre(_dot_)org
<xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:
Hi Folks,
I have an XML document containing a long list of Byte elements, e.g.,
<Bytes>
<Byte hexAddress="0">4D</Byte>
<Byte hexAddress="1">5A</Byte>
<Byte hexAddress="2">90</Byte>
<Byte hexAddress="3">00</Byte>
<Byte hexAddress="4">03</Byte>
<Byte hexAddress="5">00</Byte>
<Byte hexAddress="6">00</Byte>
<Byte hexAddress="7">00</Byte>
<Byte hexAddress="8">04</Byte>
<Byte hexAddress="9">00</Byte>
<Byte hexAddress="A">00</Byte>
<Byte hexAddress="B">00</Byte>
<Byte hexAddress="C">FF</Byte>
<Byte hexAddress="D">FF</Byte>
...
</Bytes>
I have a string of hex values, e.g.,
04000000FF
You can see that the string is contained within this series of Byte elements:
<Byte hexAddress="8">04</Byte>
<Byte hexAddress="9">00</Byte>
<Byte hexAddress="A">00</Byte>
<Byte hexAddress="B">00</Byte>
<Byte hexAddress="C">FF</Byte>
I want to find the number of <Byte> elements that occur prior to the series
of Byte elements.
I figured one approach is to convert all the Byte text node values into a
string and then perform string manipulations:
string-length(substring-before(string-join(/Bytes/Byte/text(), ''),
'04000000FF')) idiv 2
Note: I divided by two because each Byte has 2 digits.
That seems to work, but I suspect it is horribly inefficient because it
creates a string containing all the Byte text node values and there may be
tens or hundreds of thousands of Byte elements.
What is an efficient way to solve this problem?
/Roger
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