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xslt for-each = $variable

Hi,

I would like to create a dynamic for each loop that only picks up the records that match a certain variable passed into the xsl.

So say I have a list of cars. I would like to do a for-each that picks up all cars that are red.

But set as a variable.

<xsl:variable name="colour">red</xsl:variable>

<xsl:for-each select="car[info/colour = $colour]">
XML
<cars>
<car>
<info>
<colour>red</colour>
<price>500</price>
<make>ford</ford>
</info>
<history>
<MOT>none</MOT>
</history>
</car>
<car>
<info>
<colour>white</colour>
<price>650</price>
</info>
</car>
</cars>

Doesn't seem to be working. I can get it working for numbers though, say do it for price and the variable is 500.

Thanks

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Gertone (Geert Bormans)

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ASKER

ah, putting in the normalize-space worked.

What happens when I get onto cars with a colour that is two words? i.e. dark purple

Gertone (Geert Bormans)

normalize-space takes away all white-space (newlines, tabs, spaces, ...) in the beginning and at the end of the argument
and replaces each sequence of white-space (one or more newlines, spaces, tabs, ...) inside the argument with one space

" dark
purple

"

will become
"dark purple"
for the compare,
which likely fits your purpose

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ASKER

excellent, thats got it.
Im assuming it is case sensitive, is there away of mitigating this along with the spacing too?

Thanks

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