XPath/XSLT contains() for multiple strings

Question

Does contains() work for multiple words stored in a variable? Will the below one work? If it won\'t work, please help me with a solution.

Answer 1

Assuming that you're looking to do a logical OR of substring containment...

First of all, this select is likely wrong¹:

It's looking for an element named footballvolleyballchesscarrom. If you're trying to set games to the string footballvolleyballchesscarrom, change it to this:

Then, use either

XSLT 1.0

CORRECT

or

XSLT 2.0

CORRECT

to test whether $games contains one of your multiple substrings.

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¹ If you really intended to select (possibly multiple) elements from the input XML here, there is another XSLT 2.0 option for testing the selected sequence against a set of possible values. If your input XML were, say,

  football
  volleyball
  chess
  carrom

then this template,

  
  CORRECT

would output CORRECT because among the string values of the selected elements is at least one of chess or carrom.