Mukul, Yes, you are right. Count() works as you say. Thank you for your help.
- Jim From: Mukul Gandhi [mailto:muk...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 12:30 AM To: j-users@xerces.apache.org Subject: Re: problems using tokenize() Hi Jim, With a boolean() function around 'tokenize' call, an "effective boolean value" of xs:string* result of 'tokenize' will be returned. But this would result in an error as per XPath 2.0 spec, for your example. I imagine, an 'exists' or 'count' function around tokenize() would let you achieve the same purpose as matches(). Sent from a mobile device. On Thursday, April 18, 2013, Jim Barnett <jim.barn...@genesyslab.com<mailto:jim.barn...@genesyslab.com>> wrote: > I'm having trouble getting tokenize() to behave the way I expect it to. As > before, I have an element with an attribute @target with type idrefs. I want > to split the value into the individual idrefs (I will run more complicated > tests on them, but for the moment I'm just trying to get access to them). In > the attached document and schema, I have two assertions. The first, using > matches() succeeds, but the second, using tokenize(), fails: > > > > <xsd:assert test="matches(string(@target), '\S+(\s+\S+)+')" > xpathDefaultNamespace="##targetNamespace"/> > > <xsd:assert test="boolean(tokenize(string(@target), '\s+'))" > xpathDefaultNamespace="##targetNamespace"/> > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > > > Thanks, > > Jim -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
