xpath starts-with issue

mdel · March 19th, 2015, 12:16 PM

Hello. I've been trying to find a workaround on the following problem:

given the following xml

HTML Code:

<root>
	<lemma>
		<terms>
			<en>en_term1</en>
			<gr>gr_term1</gr>
		</terms>
	</lemma>
	<lemma>
		<terms>
			<en>en_term2</en>
			<gr>tgr_term1a</gr>
			<gr>gr_term2a</gr>
		</terms>
	</lemma>
	<lemma>
		<terms>
			<en>en_term3</en>
			<gr>gr_term1b</gr>
		</terms>
	</lemma>
</root>

i run the following xpath:

//lemma[starts-with(terms/gr,'gr')]

which returns the first and last <lemma> but not the middle one which contains a <gr> that starts with 'gr'. So my question is how can i "search" all <gr> elements within a <terms>?

Thanks in advance

samjudson · March 19th, 2015, 12:31 PM

I'm assuming this is XSLT 1?

If I remember correctly in XSLT 1 a function like starts-with only takes a single value, not a sequence, so terms/gr is equivalent to terms/gr[1], i.e. the first gr element only.

Try something like this:

Code:

//lemma[terms/gr[starts-with(., 'gr')]]

mdel · March 19th, 2015, 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by samjudson

I'm assuming this is XSLT 1?

If I remember correctly in XSLT 1 a function like starts-with only takes a single value, not a sequence, so terms/gr is equivalent to terms/gr[1], i.e. the first gr element only.

Try something like this:

Code:

//lemma[terms/gr[starts-with(., 'gr')]]

yep, that worked.... thanks