Hi all,

I am doing something that I'm sure is simple but I just can't seem to make it work.

I have a selection of elements called command. One of these is
<command position="236">1B286C02003400</command>

My stylesheet template that I want to apply to this element looks something like this:

   <xso:template match="command[starts-with(.,'1B286C')]">
      <command>
         <xso:variable name="position" select="@position"/>
         <position>
            <xso:value-of select="$position"/>
         </position>
         <initialCode>1B286C</initialCode>
         <name>Set Paper Loading</name>
         <xso:variable name="command" select="."/>
          <xso:value-of select="$command"></xso:value-of>
          <xso:variable name="A" select="substring($command, 11,2)"/>

          <xso:if test="starts-with($A,'34')">
               <xso:value-of select="Sets a printer model ID and specifies the media source to be the automatic sheet feeder"/>
         </xso:if>
...

The command value is picked up correctly but I can't for the life of me get the test to work. I can't even get it to work if I set the variable A to be 34. The substring function is picking out 34 so I don't understand why my test doesn't work.
I've tried things like

<xso:if test="$A='34')"> and other combinations of brackets etc.
but still no luck.
Any help or thoughts would be gratefully received.

Thanks and happy new year!!
Clare

The value of the select attribute of xsl:value-of must be an XPath expression. Try replacing

<xso:value-of select="Sets a ... feeder"/>

by

<xso:value-of select="'Sets a ... feeder'"/>

But I would have expected your existing code to give a sensible error message making this clear.



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

Sorry, my fault for not being clear. It's the test that is always false regardless of what I put it.