XSLT: contains for multiple strings

[Aleksi Kallio]

I want to say something like this:

<xsl:if test="contains($my-string, {'banana', 'apple', 'lemon'})">

Ie. I want to do "contains" against many strings. I don't want to write them all manually to condition clause, because it's cumbersome and it would help a lot if those strings could be passed into template as a parameter.

What would be the easiest way to do this?

 

[nobody]

<xsl:if test="contains($my-string, {'banana', 'apple', 'lemon'})"> Ie. I want to do "contains" against many strings.

contains works the other way round:
contains($haystack,$needle)

to test a string against a list of strings, I use

contains('/string1/string2/string3/',concat('/',$string,'/')) take care of delimiting your $string, otherwise "string" would match as well.

HTH, andreas

 

[Aleksi Kallio]

to test a string against a list of strings, I use
contains('/string1/string2/string3/',concat('/',$string,'/')) take care of delimiting your $string, otherwise "string" would match as well.

The problem is that I really need contains (not string equality). For example, I need to find if 'I hava a banana' contains 'banana', 'apple', or 'lemon'.

Is it possible, or do I need some cumbersome template magic?