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Re: XPath, starts with ?
- To: "Eric Chappuis" <eric dot chappuis at marvel dot ch>
- Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath, starts with ?
- From: Jeni Tennison <mail at jenitennison dot com>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 14:46:22 +0100
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- Organization: Jeni Tennison Consulting Ltd
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Hi Eric,
> This XPath was working fine before and does not work any more.
>
> "/ric/fid[index() > 0 and @id='ROW*']"
>
> What is the correct syntax to have every item that starts with
> something?
You should use the starts-with() function. Also, there's no index()
function in XSLT - I think that position() (which counts from 1 rather
than 0) probably gives you the same kind of effect. So you want:
/ric/fid[position() > 1 and starts-with(@id, 'ROW')]
I hope that helps,
Jeni
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