Hi
I am very new to xslt and have been trying to figure this out for a long time but without much sucess.
What I am trying to do is to allow a user type a word into an input box and then that it would search an rss file to see if that word is contain in the desciption of an item.

I have the following code, which works for me if I was searching for the language:
<xsl:copy-of select="item[contains(description/@language,$filterBy)]"/>
so in the rss file desciption is as follows:
<description language="en">some text</description>

What I would like to have is the description to be like:
<description>some text</description>
and then in my xslt file be able to compare "some text" with my parameter which at the moment is "language". I do not know how to access the text and how to compare it to the parameter.

Please if any one can help me it would be much appreciated,
Kind Regards

To test if the content equals $param use

item[description = $param]

To test if it contains the value of $param as a substring, use

item[contains(description, $param)]



Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Thanks for your help. I cant get it working though are you saying that I should have it like
<xsl:template match="channel">
<xsl:copy-of select="item[description = @language]"/>
</xsl:template>
if my rss file looks like this:
<channel>
.......
<item>
   ........
     <description>contain text</description>
</item>

and @language contains what the user entered, so that it will only copy it if entered "contain text".

also tried saying
<xsl:variable name="selectLang" select="@language"/>
and then doing
<xsl:copy-of select="item[description = $selectLang]"/>

Everything just returns an empty file?!!

Kind Regards

@language refers to an attribute in your source XML document. If you want the variable to refer to something "that the user entered", you will need to supply "what the user entered" as a parameter to the transformation, and reference it within the stylesheet as say $selectedLang where there is a top-level stylesheet parameter <xsl:param name="selectedLang"/>. The details of how to supply parameters to the transformation depend on the XSLT processor that you are using.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

Thank you for all your help. I get it now. Thank you,

Kind Regards