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RE: if - will this work?
- To: Laura Price <lprice at rim dot net>
- Subject: RE: if - will this work?
- From: Jeni Tennison <Jeni dot Tennison at epistemics dot co dot uk>
- Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 15:40:06 +0100
- Cc: "'xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com>
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Laura,
At 03:11 PM 6/5/00 +0100, Mike Kay wrote:
>> Could anyone tell me if the following code would work?
>> <xsl:if test="@src='*.gif'">
>
>Wishful thinking, I'm afraid. There's no regular expression matching in
>XPath. There's no ends-with() function, either. Use something like
>substring(@src, string-length(@src)-3, 4)='.gif'
Just to add: an alternative, as long as you can guarantee that the image
filename doesn't contain any other dots, is to use substring-after(@src,
'.') = 'gif'.
Cheers,
Jeni
Dr Jeni Tennison
Epistemics Ltd, Strelley Hall, Nottingham, NG8 6PE
Telephone 0115 9061301 • Fax 0115 9061304 • Email
jeni.tennison@epistemics.co.uk
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