Re: [xsl] search condition

[Joerg Heinicke <joerg dot heinicke at gmx dot de>]

Why don't you easily test it? It's absolutely correct.

Only 2 comments:

1. '.' means all descendant text-nodes of the current node. In your case 
it causes no problem, but '.' of <root> is 'ABCDEFABCFGHABC'. So using 
'text()' instead of '.' is safer.

2. Why are you using '//root...'? '//' searches the root and all 
descendants - so all nodes in your XML - for this pattern. Remove one of 
the slashes and it will be correct too - and with big XML-files very 
much faster.

Regards,

Joerg

Laura Jenkins wrote:
> 
> 
> Dear people,
> forgive me if my question is very basic.
> 
> i want to search the element textid which has a  text = 'ABC'
> 
> can i acheive this by the for-each condition
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="//root/children/textid[.='ABC']">
> 
> xml structure being
> 
> <root>
> <children>
>   <textid>ABC</textid>
> </children>
> <children>
>   <textid>DEF</textid>
> </children>
> <children>
>   <textid>ABC</textid>
> </children>
> <children>
>   <textid>FGH</textid>
> </children>
> <children>
>   <textid>ABC</textid>
> </children>
> </root>
> 
> please correct me if i am wrong
> i am writing the xsl like below
> 
> <xsl:for-each select="//root/children/textid[.='ABC']">
> <!-- to print the text -->
> <xsl:value-of select="."/>
> </xsl:for-each>
> 
> many thanks in advance
> laura


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