Question

I have the following snippet of XSL:

  <xsl:for-each select='item'>     <xsl:variable name='hhref' select='link' />     <xsl:variable name='pdate' select='pubDate' />     <xsl:if test='hhref not contains '1234''>       <li>         <a href='{$hhref}' title='{$pdate}'>           <xsl:value-of select='title'/>         </a>       </li>     </xsl:if>   </xsl:for-each> 

The if statement does not work because I haven’t been able to work out the syntax for contains. How would I correctly express that xsl:if?

Answer 1

Sure there is! For instance:

<xsl:if test='not(contains($hhref, '1234'))'>   <li>     <a href='{$hhref}' title='{$pdate}'>       <xsl:value-of select='title'/>     </a>   </li> </xsl:if> 

The syntax is: contains(stringToSearchWithin, stringToSearchFor)