How to compare against multiple strings in xslt

Question

For comparing an xml string value against multiple strings, I am doing the following.

Answer 1

Three ways of doing this:

1. Use a pipe (or other appropriate character) delimited string

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.2. Test against an externally passed parameter. If the parameter is not externally set, and we are using XSLT 1.0, the xxx:node-set() extension function needs to be used to convert it to normal node-set, before accessing its children

 
 

 
 
  John
  Steve
  Mark
 

 
  
     
    
 

.3. In XSLT 2.0 compare against a sequence of strings