lets say i got this xml code

<movie>
    <name> abc</name>
    <actor> james bond</actor>
    <speech>xslt and xml is cool technology </speech>
</movie>


Now i have writen a xslt style sheet. in the xslt,is it possible to search the xml's data content?
That is ,i want to search in the xml if a phrase "xml is cool" exists/part of the speech element.

If someone can share it woudl be great..thanx a lot

Doing an "exact match" search is quite easy. A more fuzzy search, for example one in which multiple spaces or newlines are considered equivalent to a single space, on in which the text can span element boundaries, requires rather more care.

You don't say what output you want from your search. If it's a simple yes/no answer, then contains(/, "xml is cool") does the job. If you want to return the element(s) in which the text is contained, try //*[contains(., 'xml is cool')



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