Thanks Andrew, that worked....I got the syntax wrong!

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 05/03/2008, Aaron Johnson <artpunx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  > Hi...
>  >
>  >  I have a set of tests which assign various parameters. Sometimes the
>  >  string values are similar and require the same variable to be used.
>  >
>  >  <xsl:when test="($tabName = 'Pilot')">pilotTab</xsl:when>
>  >  <xsl:when test="($tabName = 'Pilot 2')">pilotTab</xsl:when>
>  >  <xsl:when test="($tabName = 'Pilot 3')">pilotTab</xsl:when>
>  >
>  >  Instead of replicating the test over and over, I would like to extend
>  >  the test to check for the word 'pilot' and so do away with repetition.
>  >  I have tried various ways including 'contains' and 'begins-with' but I
>  >  can't get it to work. I also looked at using subString but this seems
>  >  to always require two values....which might work for 'Pilot,*' but not
>  >  for 'Pilot'.
>
>  contains($tabName, 'Pilot')
>
>  ....should work fine - you don't mention why that doesn't work for you?
>
>  You might prefer:
>
>  'Pilot' = tokenize($tabName, ' ')
>
>  if you want match 'Pilot' as a word (and are using 2.0)
>
>  --
>  Andrew Welch
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