Altova MapForce 2024 Enterprise Edition

Returns true if string starts with substr; false otherwise. The returned value is of type xs:boolean. String comparison takes place according to the specified collation.

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Languages

XQuery, XSLT 2.0, XSLT 3.0.

 

Parameters

Name

Type

Description

string

xs:string

The input string (that is, the "haystack").

substr

xs:string

The substring (that is, the "needle").

collation

xs:string

Specifies the collation to use for string comparison. This input may originate from the output of the default-collation function or it may be a collation such as http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/collation/html-ascii-case-insensitive.

 

Example

The following mapping returns the value true, because the input string "MapForce" begins with the substring "Map", assuming that the default Unicode collation is used.

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