Hello all,

I am trying to use the substring-before() function, but with no luck was wondering if anyone could help.

I have a separate xml file with data formatted the following:

test - test
testing testing testing

I am trying to use the substring-before only for the data which has ' - '.

I understand that according to the XPath specification's the substring-before function will return an empty string when it does not find the test string.

So my check is the following:

<xsl:when test="string-length(substring-before($wsc_text,' - ')) != 0">

My problem is that the check is not working for the data without the ' - '.

Sorry for the long post any help would be appreciated.




<xsl:when test="string-length(substring-before($wsc_text,' - ')) != 0">

Use the contains() function to check that the substring exists before calling substring-before().

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