XSLT

Name

contains() Function — Determines if the first argument string contains the second.

Synopsis

boolean contains(
               string
               string
               )

Inputs

Two strings. If the first string contains the second string, the function returns the boolean value true.

Output

The boolean value true if the first argument contains the second; false otherwise.

Defined in

XPath section 4.2, String Functions.

Example

This stylesheet uses the replace-substring named template. It passes three arguments to the replace-substring template: the original string, the substring to be searched for in the original string, and the substring to replace the target substring in the original string. The replace-substring template uses the contains(), substring-after(), and substring-before() functions extensively.

Here is our sample stylesheet. It replaces all occurrences of World with the string “Mundo”:

<?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:output method="text"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:variable name="test"> <xsl:call-template name="replace-substring"> <xsl:with-param name="original">Hello World!</xsl:with-param> <xsl:with-param name="substring">World</xsl:with-param> <xsl:with-param name="replacement">Mundo</xsl:with-param> </xsl:call-template> </xsl:variable> <xsl:value-of select="$test"/> </xsl:template> <xsl:template name="replace-substring"> <xsl:param name="original"/> <xsl:param name="substring"/> <xsl:param name="replacement" select="''"/> <xsl:variable ...