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RE: xsl string comparison fails why?
- From: "Kevin Collins" <kcollins at art dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:38:44 -0400
- Subject: RE: [xsl] xsl string comparison fails why?
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> > Not sure about this, but I think the string value of
> > "admissions/state/text()" will include the value of the child
> > <statelink> element as well.
>
> no as it was iterating over text() nodes.
Ahh. Makes sense. But only after reading your first reply, quoted below.
Very enlightening!
Thanks,
Kevin
> <xsl:for-each select="admissions/state/text()">
> <xsl:if test=".=$state">
> <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>
> so here you are iterating through each of teh text nodes of
> teh state element. in the case of
>
> <state>Alabama
> <statelink
> href="http://www.alabar.org/page.cfm?view=3&subgroup=main">
> Bar Admissions Information</statelink>
> </state>
>
>
> there are two of those:
>
> "Alabama
> "
>
> and
>
> "
> "
>
> either side of the statelink element.
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