I think you guys have misunderstood Karl's question. If I read it correctly, Karl wants only those elements whose *name* begins with a certain string, like this:

<xsl:if test="starts-with(name(), 'c')">
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Charles Knell
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-----Original Message-----
From:     David N Bertoni/Cambridge/IBM <david_n_bertoni@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent:     Thu, 20 Mar 2003 13:30:35 -0800
To:       xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Re:  Looping through attributes..





> Okay, I'm looping through attributes.  Now I need to determine if the
name
> of an attribute starts with a particular text expression.  I have the
> following (and it doesn't work):
>
> <xsl:for-each select="@*">
> <xsl:if test="starts-with(@,'S')">
> ...
> </xsl:if>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> Am I close???

Yes:

   <xsl:for-each select="@*">
   <xsl:if test="starts-with(.,'S')">
   ...
   </xsl:if>
   </xsl:for-each>

or even:

   <xsl:for-each select="@*[starts-with(.,'S')]">
   ...
   </xsl:for-each>

if you're just going to ignore the attributes which don't start with 'S'.

Hope that helps.

Dave


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