XML/XSLT stylesheet/starts with
starts-with function
<source lang="xml">
File: Data.xml <poem>
<verse>line 1</verse> <verse> line 2 </verse>
</poem> File: Transform.xslt <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0"> <xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes" indent="no" /> <xsl:template match="verse"> <xsl:value-of select="concat("length: ",string-length(.))" /> <xsl:if test="contains(.,"light")"> <xsl:text>light: yes!</xsl:text> </xsl:if> <xsl:if test="starts-with(.,"Seest")"> <xsl:text>Yes, starts with "Seest"</xsl:text> </xsl:if> <xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(.)" /> <xsl:value-of select="translate(.,"abcde","ABCD")" /> </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet> Output:
length: 6line 1lin 1 length: 13line 2 lin 2 </source>