XPath is case-sensitive.

There are no "artist" elements in your source xml document with string value
that starts with "b" (they all start with "B".

Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev.


"Leila" <allenleila@h...> wrote in message
news:aa4acb12.0407050249.3614d72d@p......
> I have an XML file which looks like this:
>
> <catalog>
> <cd>
> <title>Empire Burlesque</title>
> <artist>Bob Dylan</artist>
> <country>USA</country>
> <company>Columbia</company>
> <price>10.90</price>
> <year>1985</year>
> </cd>
> <cd>
> <title>Hide your heart</title>
> <artist>Bonnie Tyler</artist>
> <country>UK</country>
> <company>CBS Records</company>
> <price>9.90</price>
> <year>1988</year>
> </cd>
> .
> .
> .
> </catalog>
>
> My xslt looks like this:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="50%">
> <tr>
> <td class="heading" colspan="2">Leila's music box</td>
> </tr><tr bgcolor="#9acd32">
> <td class="textSmall">Artist</td>
> <td class="textSmall">Title</td>
> </tr>
> <xsl:for-each select="catalog/cd">
> <xsl:sort select="artist"/>
> <tr>
>
> <xsl:if test = "catalog/cd[starts-with(artist, 'a')]">
> <td bgcolor="#B0F3A1">
> <xsl:value-of select="artist"/>
> </td>
> <td bgcolor="#B0F3A1">
> <xsl:value-of select="title"/>
> </td>
> </xsl:if>
>
> <xsl:if test = "catalog/cd[starts-with(artist, 'b')]">
> <td bgcolor="#F3A1A5">
> <xsl:value-of select="artist"/>
> </td>
> <td bgcolor="#F3A1A5">
> <xsl:value-of select="title"/>
> </td>
> </xsl:if>
> .
> .
> .
>
> </tr>
> </xsl:for-each>
>
> </table>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> I am attempting to use the <xsl:if ...> statement to check which
> letter the artist name begins with, and depending on that, I change
> the background colour of the <td> tag.
>
> But this line <xsl:if test = "catalog/cd[starts-with(artist, 'b')]">
> is not working. What am I doing wrong???
>
> Any help would me most appreciated!
>
> Leila