viv:switch-string

switch function that is based on string arguments

Synopsis

object
	viv:switch-string
	(str, str-test-1, obj-1, ..., str-test-n, obj-n, obj-other);
string    str;
string    str-test-1;
object    obj-1;

...
;
string    str-test-n;
object    obj-n;
object    obj-other;

Description

Simple switch statement (which does not exist in XPath 1.0) based on the value of string.

Arguments

str: the string whose value is tested.
str-test-1, str-test-n: test strings which will be compared to str
obj-1, obj-n: objects (string, node-set, etc) to return when their respective string matches the test string.
object-other: the object (string, node-set, etc) to if a respective string match is false. The default value for this parameter is the empty string, '""'.

Returns

obj-i if str-test-i is equal to str
object-other if none of the conditions is verified.

Example

    <xsl:value-of select="viv:switch-string(@source, 'MSN', 1, 'Yahoo', 2, 3)"/>