For a string-comparison snippet see:

http://www.topxml.com/code/default.asp?p=3&id=v20010205033413&ms=20&l=xpath&sw=lang



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Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.
http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL



"Patel, Viral" <viral.patel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:7C1965B54EADD61190B80008023D05F4790C9C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sorry if you get duplicates but I got some email transmission error
so I am
> gonna post this problem one more time and see if someone can help me.
> 
> 
> I am new to XSL and I have several questions - some of them might be
really
> easy ones but I just want to confirm.
> 
> 1. Is it possible to compare two strings lexicographically in
XSL/XPATH? I
> believe the answer is no. Is there a way I can achieve this?
> 
> 
> 2. I have listed the XML & XSL below.   In that the community name
attribute
> could start with a alphabet, a number or any other character.   Most
of the
> community names are expected to start with alphabets.  In my output,
if I
> have one or more community name starting with a certain alphabet
(i.e. 'A')
> then I want to put a link (aka advance orgranizer) at the top of the
page
> that would say 'A' and likewise for all the alphabets.  Also since I
have
> few communities starting with non-alphabets, I would want to put a
link
> called Miscellaneous that would link to a page which would display
all
> non-alphabetic characters.
> 
> How would I go about doing this?  And the those non-alphabetic
characters
> are not fixed, they could vary depending on the XML file used.  If
there was
> string comparison allowed then I could do something like @name<'a' or
> @name>'z'  for each node and that would give me all non-alphabetic
> characters.
> 
> Any ideas/help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> <record>
>  <community name="101 South">
>   ... Some Information ...
>  </community>
>  <community name="**">
>   ... Some Information ...
>  </community>
>  <community name="Adams">
>   ... Some Information ...
>  </community>
>  <community name="Smith">
>   ... Some Information ...
>  </community>
>  ... .... ....
> </record>
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="1.1" xmlns:lxslt="http://xml.apache.org/xslt">
> 
>       <xsl:template match="/">
>  <xsl:apply-templates match="//community"/>
>       </xsl:template>
> 
>  <xsl:template name="community">
>   <xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'*')">
>    <xsl:call-template
> name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity">
>     <xsl:with-param
> name="letterLink">*</xsl:with-param>
>    </xsl:call-template>
>   </xsl:if>
>   <xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'A')">
>    <xsl:call-template
> name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity">
>     <xsl:with-param
> name="letterLink">A</xsl:with-param>
>    </xsl:call-template>
>   </xsl:if>
>   <xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'B')">
>    <xsl:call-template
> name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity">
>     <xsl:with-param
> name="letterLink">B</xsl:with-param>
>    </xsl:call-template>
>   </xsl:if>
>   <xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'C')">
>    <xsl:call-template
> name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity">
>     <xsl:with-param
> name="letterLink">C</xsl:with-param>
>    </xsl:call-template>
>   </xsl:if>
>   <xsl:if test="starts-with(@name,'D')">
>    <xsl:call-template
> name="createTopLetterLinkForCommunity">
>     <xsl:with-param
> name="letterLink">D</xsl:with-param>
>    </xsl:call-template>
>   </xsl:if>
>        .... AND SO ON ....
>  </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks
> V. Patel.
> 
> 
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