RE: [xsl] Matching on of many string literal values using XPath

[TSchutzerWeissmann at uk dot imshealth dot com]

> > you could make a variable that concatenates all the different 
> > values you'd like to test for and use contains() to do the 
> > test.
[...]
> I could but that will not behave exactly like I would like for every
> possible input.  I can get the exact results I desire with a pair of
> for-each loops and a variable containing a node set, but I was hoping
> for something "clean".  It looks like nearly the exact same 
> question was
> asked here:
>
>http://www.biglist.com/cgi-bin/wilma/wilma_hiliter/xsl-
>list/200006/msg00561.html

The two cases aren't the same - if I've understood, you want an exact
match, and Steve was searching for terms within the entire text content
of a node, and there you really do need contains(), which means for-
eaches as well, because contains evaluates node-sets in string context, ie,
the string value of the first node of the set.

Whereas, if you want an exact match you can just do this
	match="foo[.=$terms/term]" 
and that will match if foo's value is the same as any of the term nodes
in $terms.

it might work
---
Tom



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