Thanks Michael and Andrew very much for your responses.

I think what I probably need to do is get my hands on Michael's book

Regards,

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Welch" <AWelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 11:12 AM
Subject: RE:  Contains - where contained




> Is there an easy way to test not only whether one strings 
> contains another, but if the position of the contains is at 
> the start  of the taret string, at the end or somewhere other 
> than  the start and the end.

To test if one string contains another:

test="contains(.,$string) 

To test if one string is at the start of another string:

test="not(string-length(normalize-space(substring-before(.,$string))))"

Combine the two:

test="contains(.,$string) and
not(string-length(normalize-space(substring-before(.,$string))))"

To do what you are asking use a choose/when with the start and end tests
first, and the middle test falling into the otherwise.

You may want to remove the normalize-space() if you would treat "hello"
and " hello" differently.  You probably also would want to translate()
to the same case before comparing as well.

andrew

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