The functions starts-with() and ends-with() test whether the first argument starts or ends with the second one. The comparisons are case-sensitive.
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XSLT
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="2.0"> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/> <xsl:template match="/aaa"> <xxx> <i> <xsl:value-of select="starts-with(bbb,'Hell')"/> </i> <ii> <xsl:value-of select="starts-with(bbb,'hell')"/> </ii> </xxx> <yyy> <i> <xsl:value-of select="ends-with(bbb,'!')"/> </i> <ii> <xsl:value-of select="ends-with(ddd,'.xml')"/> </ii> </yyy> <zzz> <i> <xsl:value-of select="starts-with(bbb,ccc)"/> </i> <ii> <xsl:value-of select="starts-with(ddd,lower-case(ccc))"/> </ii> </zzz> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> |
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XML
<aaa> <bbb>Hello, world!</bbb> <ccc>Hello</ccc> <ddd>hello.xml</ddd> </aaa> |
Output
<xxx> <i>true</i> <ii>false</ii> </xxx> <yyy> <i>true</i> <ii>true</ii> </yyy> <zzz> <i>true</i> <ii>true</ii> </zzz> |
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