Subject: Re: Extract string from CDATA value
From: Sven Waibel <sven.waibel@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:50:50 +0100
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I understand, but when i compare it this way:<xsl:if test="@id = value"> then it don't work, just you explained. My
attribute has not both.
But how can i compare these two value?
Sven
David Carlisle wrote:
>>attribute and you can't say: <xsl:if test="@id = <xsl:value-of select="value" />">.
>
>
> @id and value are both the same kind of Xpath expression, they each
> select a node set from the source.
>
> You didn't try to go
>
> <xsl:if test="<xsl:value-of select="@id"/>= <xsl:value-of select="value" />">.
>
> which would have been the consistent (but wrong) thing to try.
>
> You just need
>
> <xsl:if test="@id = value">
>
> except, as explained last time this came up,"@id = value" would only
> work if the same attribute had both an id attribute and a value child,
> something like
> <foo id="a">
> <value>data</value>
> </foo>
>
> the CDATA in the subject line is a red herring, XSLT can not see the
> CDATA section,
>
> <value><![CDATA[test]]></value>
>
> is the same as
>
> <value>test</value>
>
> David
>
>
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