Re: [xsl] attribute closest match

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

Hello Matthew,

to find a "closest match" is really not a work for XSLT. XML in general 
is really exact, so you can't do such work. So only things I could 
imagine are the functions contains() and starts-with(), but it's not 
much of sense I think. Try another approach than XSLT or use an 
extension function.

Regards,

Joerg

Matthew L. Avizinis wrote:
> Hello all,
>   I am comparing a series of attribute (called 'id') values in one xml file
> with same in a second xml file.  If there is an id value in the the second
> file which matches, I grab the value of the element and use it.  If there is
> no match, I use the Xalan redirect extension element to emit a log file
> entry essentially stating that there wasn't a match for that id but can't
> provide much more information.  It could be that there is a _nearly_
> matching id, e.g. maybe two characters are accidentally transposed.
>   I believe that use of computers should make our lives easier.  So what I'd
> like to know is if anyone knows of any XSLT templates which can essentially
> find a _closest match_ which I could then emit to the log file or do I have
> to resort to writing an extension function?
>
> thank you for any suggestions,
>
>    Matthew L. Avizinis

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