[xquery-talk] Problems with string testing in if

[Philippe Michiels]

> Thank you both for the help. Unfortunately none of the suggestions
> worked, although they changed the behaviour of the function: now it
> always returns "test" (except when called with the locale no_NO from
> Safari (MacOS X), then it returns "nor" as expected; the same locale
> from Mozilla returns "test", though). That is, in all but one case it
> goes directly to the last else clause.

I do not think there is something wrong with your function. I tested this 
function with Galax and it seems to work fine. The attached query file 
results in 

"nor"

"fin"

"sme"

"eng"

"sms"

Maybe it's a bug?

Ph
-- 
Philippe Michiels
Universiteit Antwerpen
ADReM (Advanced Database Research and Modelling)
http://www.adrem.ua.ac.be/~michiels


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(: Convert incoming locale strings to 3-letter language codes (ISO 639):)

declare function local:locale2lang($locale as xs:string) as xs:string
{
	let $lang := substring-before($locale,"_")
	return
		if ($lang = "no" or $lang = "nn" or $lang = "nb" ) then "nor"
		else if ($lang = "se") then "sme"
		else if ($lang = "sv") then "swe"
		else if ($lang = "fi") then "fin"
		else if ($lang = "en") then "eng"
		else if ($lang = "smi") then "sme"
		else if ($lang = "sme" or $lang = "sma" or
			 $lang = "smn" or $lang= "smj" or
			 $lang = "sms" or $lang = "sme" or
			 $lang = "nor" or $lang = "swe" or
			 $lang = "fin" or $lang = "eng") then
		     $lang
                else "test"
};

local:locale2lang("nn_NO");
local:locale2lang("fi_FI");
local:locale2lang("se_SE");
local:locale2lang("en_EN");
local:locale2lang("sms_SM");