XSLT Wildcards?

kwilliams · September 27th, 2005, 04:19 PM

Does XSLT use wildcards? I'm trying to use an external XML feed, but unfortunately one of the values contains a space before and a space after the needed value.

So if the XML feed contains this data:

Code:

<xmlfeed>
    <value> yada </value>
</xmlfeed>

...and I have an XSLT stylesheet to compare that value to an internal value, like this:

Code:

<xsl:if test="$rssfeed/xmlfeed/value = '*yada*'">
    <strong>Current Status: </strong><xsl:value-of select="$rssfeed/xmlfeed/value" />
</xsl:if>

Is there a way to use a wildcard around the value in XSLT? Thanks for any help.

KWilliams

joefawcett · September 28th, 2005, 10:50 AM

You have at least two options, if it's always spaces then use normalize-space function which strips leading and trailing whitespace and compresses whitespace in the middle to single occurrences:

Code:

test="normalize-space($rssfeed/xmlfeed/value) = 'yada'"

If it can be other characters then use the contains function.

Code:

test="contains($rssfeed/xmlfeed/value, 'yada')"

--

Joe

kwilliams · September 28th, 2005, 10:54 AM

What a GREAT reply. Thanks so much for the 2 options, and the quick reply! It worked great.

KWilliams