>> English << | Français | Deutsch | Magyar | 中文 | Polski ZVON > Tutorials > XSLT Tutorial
Intro / Search / ZVON
>> Page 49 << | Prev | Next | Contents | Element Index

The starts-with function returns true if the first argument string starts with the second argument string, and otherwise returns false. The contains function returns true if the first argument string contains the second argument string, and otherwise returns false.

XSLT stylesheet 1

XML Source
<source>

<text>Welcome to XSL world.</text>
<string>Welcome</string>
<string>XSL</string>
<string>XML</string>

</source>

Output
<TABLE border="1">
  <TR>
     <TH colspan="3">Welcome to XSL world.</TH>
  </TR>
  <TR>
     <TH>string</TH>
     <TH>starts-with</TH>
     <TH>contains</TH>
  </TR>
  <TR>
     <TD>Welcome</TD>
     <TD>true</TD>
     <TD>true</TD>
  </TR>
  <TR>
     <TD>XSL</TD>
     <TD>false</TD>
     <TD>true</TD>
  </TR>
  <TR>
     <TD>XML</TD>
     <TD>false</TD>
     <TD>false</TD>
  </TR>
</TABLE>

HTML view
Welcome to XSL world.
string starts-with contains
Welcome true true
XSL false true
XML false false
XSLT stylesheet
<xsl:stylesheet version = '1.0'
     xmlns:xsl='http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform'>

<xsl:template match="/">
     <TABLE border="1">
          <TR>
               <TH colspan="3">
                    <xsl:value-of select="//text"/>
               </TH>
          </TR>
          <TR>
               <TH>string</TH>
               <TH>starts-with</TH>
               <TH>contains</TH>
          </TR>
          <xsl:for-each select="//string">
               <TR>
                    <TD>
                         <xsl:value-of select="."/>
                    </TD>
                    <TD>
                         <xsl:value-of select="starts-with(//text,.)"/>
                    </TD>
                    <TD>
                         <xsl:value-of select="contains(//text,.)"/>
                    </TD>
               </TR>
          </xsl:for-each>
     </TABLE>
</xsl:template>


</xsl:stylesheet>