Re: [xsl] search condition

[Peter Davis <pdavis152 at attbi dot com>]

As others have pointed out, your method will work, but there is probably a 
better way of doing this:

<xsl:key name="textid" match="root/children/textid" use="string(.)"/>
<xsl:template ...>
  <xsl:for-each select="key('textid', 'ABC')">
    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
  </xsl:for-each>
</xsl:template>

(the "root/children/textid" in the xsl:key could be shortened to just match 
"textid" unless you need to restrict the match to only textid's that are 
children of <children>'s and <root>'s)

In general, xsl:key is much more efficient that using "//".

On Wednesday 06 March 2002 02:04, Laura Jenkins wrote:
> Dear people,
> forgive me if my question is very basic.
>
> i want to search the element textid which has a  text = 'ABC'
>
> can i acheive this by the for-each condition
>
> <xsl:for-each select="//root/children/textid[.='ABC']">
>
> xml structure being
>
> <root>
> <children>
>    <textid>ABC</textid>
> </children>
> <children>
>    <textid>DEF</textid>
> </children>
> <children>
>    <textid>ABC</textid>
> </children>
> <children>
>    <textid>FGH</textid>
> </children>
> <children>
>    <textid>ABC</textid>
> </children>
> </root>
>
> please correct me if i am wrong
> i am writing the xsl like below
>
> <xsl:for-each select="//root/children/textid[.='ABC']">
> <!-- to print the text -->
> <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> many thanks in advance
> laura
>
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