Subject: RE: Flatten a sequence to a string in xslt 2.0
From: "Andreas L. Delmelle" <a_l.delmelle@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:23:56 +0200
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Welch [mailto:AWelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
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> With this xml:
>
> <root>
> <node>hello</node>
> <node>world</node>
> </root>
>
> And this variable definition:
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> <xsl:variable name="foo" select="/root/node"/>
>
> I get a sequence of two nodes rather than the string value of the first
> node (as in xslt 1.0)
>
Hi,
The described effect happens in 1.0 also (by default).
Just use:
substring-after(.,string($foo))
or, to be able to choose exactly which node:
substring-after(.,$foo[1])
> how do I get from the sequence to a string? I hope I'm not being really
> dumb here and missing something obvious :)
>
All hope in vain ;)
Never mind, hope it helps!
Cheers,
Andreas
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